A man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.
You never lose until you actually give up.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
A good half of the art of living is resilience.
While there’s life, there’s hope.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
When people say you can’t do it – that it’s impossible – never lose hope. Just because they couldn’t doesn’t mean you can’t.
A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Resilience is not what happens to you. It’s how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
We can always begin again.
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.