By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.
Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Everything works out in the end. If it hasn’t worked out yet, then it’s not the end.
Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
Assume life will be really tough, and then ask if you can handle it. If the answer is yes, you’ve won.
Throw me to the wolves and I will return leading the pack.
Sometimes I don’t feel good, but when you get in the ring, you can’t say “oh, I feel bad, can we stop?”
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.