Like success, failure is many things to many people. With positive mental attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.
Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger.
Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.
The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
When you can’t change the direction of the wind – adjust your sails.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.