And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.
I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.
Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience – ensuring we’ll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer, and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.
People will hurt you. But don’t use that as an excuse for your poor choices, use it as motivation to make the right ones.
You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.
You can’t always control the circumstances – only how you react to those circumstances; you can always control your attitude and your effort.
I’m like a phoenix. I rise from the ashes.
I can endure more pain than anyone you’ve met. That’s why I win, because I can endure more pain.
Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before.
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
Take the stones people throw at you, and use them to build a monument.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.