567 quotes
“However difficult life may seem there is always something you can do and succeed at”
— Stephen Hawking
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves”
— Edmund Hillary
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown they prefer suffering that is familiar”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”
— Pablo Neruda
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
— Unknown
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”
— Robert Jordan
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes including you”
— Anne Lamott
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.”
— Sun Tzu
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Hermann Hesse
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”
— Audre Lorde
“Pain is temporary quitting lasts forever”
— Lance Armstrong
“To bear lightly what needs must be is a great virtue.”
— Seneca
“Real discipline is built when you finish one hard task before noon.”
— DuckyHeals
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world but then you read”
— James Baldwin
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet”
— Tupac Shakur
“When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do not judge me by my successes judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again”
— Nelson Mandela
“And once the storm is over, you will not remember how you made it through. But one thing is certain: when you come out of the storm, you will not be the same person who walked in.”
— Haruki Murakami
“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Real discipline is built when you keep promises to yourself when no one checks.”
“My dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week”
— Sara Blakely
“To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Real discipline is built when you trade speed for clarity at key decisions.”
“Do not be afraid of going slowly; be only afraid of standing still.”
“Success is less about talent and more about return rate after setbacks.”
“Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it”
“Adversity reveals genius prosperity conceals it”
— Horace
“It is not down in any map true places never are”
— Herman Melville
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent intolerable uncertainty not knowing what comes next”
— Ursula K. Le Guin
“You do not learn to walk by following rules you learn by doing and by falling over”
— Richard Branson
“Champions keep playing until they get it right”
— Billie Jean King
“Self-compassion is not self-indulgence self-compassion is self-preservation”
— Kristin Neff
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny”
— C.S. Lewis
“Discipline becomes easier when you review your priorities every morning.”
“All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well”
— Julian of Norwich
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey”
— Wendell Berry
“It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all”
— J.K. Rowling
“Do not be wise in words be wise in deeds”
— Hebrew Proverb
“I have not failed I have just found 10000 ways that will not work”
— Thomas Edison
“In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life it goes on”
— Robert Frost
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“When the world pushes you to your knees, you are in the perfect position to pray.”
“Time is the substance I am made of time is a river which sweeps me along but I am the river”
— Jorge Luis Borges
“And now that you dont have to be perfect you can be good”
— John Steinbeck
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“You miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take”
— Wayne Gretzky
“Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems.”
— Gever Tulley
“There is a crack in everything that is how the light gets in”
— Leonard Cohen
“I never dreamed about success I worked for it”
— Estee Lauder
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives”
— Jackie Robinson
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again this time more intelligently”
— Henry Ford
“Those who have a why to live can bear with almost any how”
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'”
— Mary Anne Radmacher
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
“The most meaningful way to succeed is to help other people succeed”
— Adam Grant
“Resilience is a social rather than an individual quality we dont just pick ourselves up we are picked up by others”
— Krista Tippett
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
— Rumi
“Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
— François Rabelais
“The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists”
— Japanese Proverb
“The most important thing is to find out what the most important thing is”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“When one door closes another opens but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us”
— Alexander Graham Bell
“One joy scatters a hundred griefs.”
“Real discipline is built when you reduce distractions before they spread.”
“I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do”
— Georgia OKeeffe
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— Oliver Goldsmith
“It is not the bruise on the body that hurts. It is the bruise on the heart.”
— Aisha bint Abu Bakr
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”
— Isaac Newton
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges”
— Pat Riley
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
— John Vance Cheney
“And once the storm is over you wont remember how you made it through how you managed to survive you wont even be sure the storm is really over but one thing is certain when you come out of the storm you wont be the same person who walked in”
“For what it is worth it is never too late to be whoever you want to be”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you.”
— Brian Tracy
“Failure is not the opposite of success it is part of success”
— Arianna Huffington
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life”
— Virginia Woolf
“It is not about how hard you hit it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward”
— Rocky Balboa
“What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.”
“If roses can grow through concrete then so can you”
— Nikita Gill
“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy”
“I am not concerned that you have fallen I am concerned that you arise”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Fear is not the natural state of civilized people”
— Aung San Suu Kyi
“In the confrontation between the stream and the rock the stream always wins not through strength but through persistence”
— Buddha
“You cannot stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer”
“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness it took me years to understand that this too was a gift”
— Mary Oliver
“Still I rise”
— Maya Angelou
“Discipline becomes easier when you improve one repeatable process each day.”
“Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do does not matter”
— Martin Seligman
“A drowning man is not troubled by rain.”
“Real discipline is built when you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains”
— Anne Frank
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself the invisible inevitable battles inside all of us that is where it is at”
— Jesse Owens
“Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
— Victor Hugo
“The obstacle is the way”
— Ryan Holiday
“Water is fluid soft and yielding but water will wear away rock which is rigid and cannot yield”
— Lao Tzu
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white neither need you do anything but be yourself”
— Zhuangzi
“When something is important enough you do it even if the odds are not in your favor”
— Elon Musk
“Today is hard tomorrow will be worse but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine”
— Jack Ma
“I am not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps I am the first Simone Biles”
— Simone Biles
“Difficulties are just things to overcome after all”
— Ernest Shackleton
“The strength of the team is each individual member the strength of each member is the team”
— Phil Jackson
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life”
— Carol Dweck
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“How wild it was to let it be”
— Cheryl Strayed
“Fall seven times and stand up eight.”
— Chinese Proverb
“In the midst of movement and chaos keep stillness inside of you”
— Deepak Chopra
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“You may encounter many defeats but you must not be defeated”
“Success feels simple after you survive the hard middle.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“And once the storm is over you will not remember how you made it through but you will be transformed”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Younger
“Success is most often achieved by those who do not know that failure is inevitable”
— Coco Chanel
“Mountains are not fair or unfair they are just dangerous”
— Reinhold Messner
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us”
“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy”
“If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced”
— Vincent van Gogh
“The secret of our success is that we never never give up”
— Wilma Mankiller
“Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you start before you feel fully ready.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you return quickly after setbacks.”
“Everything can be taken from a person but one thing the last of the human freedoms to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances”
“All the adversity I have had all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me”
— Walt Disney
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
“You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
“Real discipline is built when you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“An entrepreneur is someone who will jump off a cliff and assemble an airplane on the way down”
— Reid Hoffman
“We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars”
— Oscar Wilde
“If you are going through hell keep going”
— Winston Churchill
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
“The beauty and the mystery of life lies not in avoiding the difficult moments but in being open to them”
— Orhan Pamuk
“Discipline becomes easier when you prepare when the pressure is low.”
“It always seems impossible until it is done”
— Mandela
“There is always light if only we are brave enough to see it if only we are brave enough to be it”
— Amanda Gorman
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality”
— James Stockdale
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
— Mary Pickford
“A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures for anything”
— Irish Proverb
“Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick do not lose faith”
— Steve Jobs
“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely”
— Auguste Rodin
“No matter what nobody can take away the dances you have already had”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit”
— Wilma Rudolph
“You have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strength”
“The trouble is you think you have time”
— Jack Kornfield
“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit”
— Greek Proverb
“Courage is not the absence of fear courage is fear walking”
— Susan David
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be”
— Charles Dickens
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escape”
— bell hooks
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Seneca the Elder
“No mud no lotus”
“Though the bamboo forest is dense, water flows through it freely.”
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
— Euripides
“Discipline becomes easier when you practice the fundamentals relentlessly.”
“Memories of our lives of our works and our deeds will continue in others”
— Rosa Parks
“The single story creates stereotypes and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue but that they are incomplete”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“The conversational nature of reality means we can never just command our way through life we must be willing to be changed by what we find”
— David Whyte
“Success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts”
“Real discipline is built when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.”
— Catherine the Great
— Camus
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.”
— George S. Patton
“Do not give up do not ever give up”
— Jim Valvano
“Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.”
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals”
— Angela Duckworth
“He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair against our will comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God”
— Aeschylus
“It is not whether you get knocked down it is whether you get up”
— Vince Lombardi
“A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth if I have to fall may I fall from a high place”
— Paulo Coelho
“I always believe if you are stuck in a hole and things look bad there is something within yourself that can still come out.”
— Roger Federer
“For every failure there is an alternative course of action you just have to find it”
— Mary Kay Ash
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run”
— Babe Ruth
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
— Confucius
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“There is no situation that is not transformable there is no person who is hopeless”
— Desmond Tutu
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional”
“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixed”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Everything negative pressure challenges is all an opportunity for me to rise”
— Kobe Bryant
“I have a lot of stamina and I have a lot of resilience”
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
“Resilience is accepting your new reality even if it is less good than the one you had before”
— Elizabeth Edwards
“I am not what I am I am what I do with my hands”
— Louise Bourgeois
“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”
“Dripping water hollows out stone not through force but through persistence”
— Ovid
“In the midst of winter I found there was within me an invincible summer.”
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo — far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
— Jodi Picoult
“Discipline becomes easier when you schedule deep work like a non-negotiable meeting.”
“You are the sky everything else is just the weather”
— Pema Chodron
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
“We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope”
“Patience and fortitude conquer all things.”
“What we pay attention to grows so what are you attending to”
— adrienne maree brown
“What you cannot avoid welcome”
— Danish Proverb
“Life is never guaranteed to be great nothing is guaranteed except that you can try”
— Ai Weiwei
“The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”
— Robert Green Ingersoll
“Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
— Ernest Hemingway
“It is in the darkest moments that we must focus to see the light”
— Native American Proverb
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Albert Einstein
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
“Many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
— Tara Brach
“From the withered tree, a flower blooms.”
— Zeami Motokiyo
“I tell my story not because it is unique but because it is the story of many girls”
— Malala Yousafzai
“I knew that if I failed I would not regret that but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying”
— Jeff Bezos
“Real discipline is built when you break large goals into daily proof.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and happiness is not something ready made it comes from your own actions”
— Dalai Lama
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Discipline becomes easier when you build systems that survive low motivation.”
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors”
— African Proverb
“Option A is not available so let us just kick the ass out of option B”
“Nothing is miserable unless you think it so and conversely every lot is happy if you are content with it”
— Boethius
“You build on failure you use it as a stepping stone close the door on the past”
— Johnny Cash
“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.”
— Book of Proverbs
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings”
— Elie Wiesel
“The most fundamental aggression to ourselves the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly and gently”
“You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your potential”
— David Goggins
“Turn your wounds into wisdom”
“Strength does not come from physical capacity it comes from an indomitable will”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes you will be fine”
— Sadhguru
“Wholeness does not mean perfection it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life”
— Parker Palmer
“I prayed for freedom for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs”
“Persist and resist: these two words contain the secret of all tenacious natures.”
“Real discipline is built when you focus on completion before optimization.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you protect recovery so your effort is sustainable.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today”
— Jordan Peterson
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter everything is within”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone these women together ought to be able to turn it back”
— Sojourner Truth
“Life is the dancer and you are the dance”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire likewise with randomness and uncertainty and chaos you want to use them not hide from them”
“I have missed more than 9000 shots in my career I have lost almost 300 games 26 times I have been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed”
— Michael Jordan
“I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory”
— Fernando Pessoa
“Since we cannot change reality let us change the eyes which see reality”
— Nikos Kazantzakis
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“The broken bone, once healed, is strongest at the place it was broken.”
— John Lyly
“At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can”
— Frida Kahlo
“Nothing others do is because of you what others say and do is a projection of their own reality”
— Don Miguel Ruiz
“The stiff and unbending is the disciple of death the soft and yielding is the disciple of life”
— Laozi
“It is not what happens to you but how you react to it that matters”
— Epictetus
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
— Ram Dass
“Real discipline is built when you close the loop on small commitments.”
“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
— Martha Graham
“It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you write down the next step before ending the day.”
“That which does not destroy us makes us stronger.”
“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90 time is a concept that humans created”
— Yoko Ono
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
“When they go low, we go high.”
— Michelle Obama
“I will seize fate by the throat it shall not overcome me”
— Beethoven
“In times of adversity and change we really discover who we are and what we are made of”
— Howard Schultz
“There is no adrenaline rush it is much more like a deep calm”
— Alex Honnold
“The truly strong become stronger when they fall.”
— Anonymous
“Real discipline is built when you build feedback loops into your workflow.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you finish today before designing tomorrow.”
“Real discipline is built when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do”
— Brene Brown
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
— John A. Shedd
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured by the passing cloud of misfortune, but can never be extinguished.”
— Hannah More
“It is not what happens to you but how your family reacts that matters.”
“We cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond”
— Edith Eger
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity”
“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor the person perfected without trials”
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
— Gabor Mate
“Real discipline is built when you say no to work that does not matter.”
“Discipline becomes easier when you keep your standards when no one is watching.”
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of outcome”
— Vaclav Havel
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same”
— Tom Brady
“One must not tie a ship to a single anchor, nor life to a single hope.”
“We can do hard things”
— Glennon Doyle
“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“And so it goes”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“I alone cannot change the world but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples”
— Mother Teresa
“The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”
“All that you touch you change all that you change changes you the only lasting truth is change”
— Octavia Butler
“Discipline equals freedom”
— Jocko Willink
“I made a resolve then that I was going to amount to something if I could and no amount of poverty or misfortune was going to hold me down”
— Colonel Sanders
“Let nothing disturb you let nothing frighten you all things are passing away God never changes patience obtains all things”
— Teresa of Avila
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
— Robert H. Schuller
“The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.”
— Plutarch
“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.”
— D.H. Lawrence
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
— Rupi Kaur
“A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.”
“Necessity does the work of courage.”
— George Eliot
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.”
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice”
— Bob Marley
“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”
“I am convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance”
“It is not the critic who counts not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena”
— Theodore Roosevelt
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you it will be enough”
— Meister Eckhart
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like me”
“When the world says 'give up,' hope whispers 'try it one more time.'”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience we are spiritual beings having a human experience”
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.”
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out”
— John Wooden
“You could call this the moment I became an educated person I mean the moment I was no longer a person who merely learned but someone who was actually changed by what I learned”
— Tara Westover
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”
“There may be people who have more talent than you but there is no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do”
— Derek Jeter
“Discipline becomes easier when you replace excuses with ownership.”
“Where there is no struggle there is no strength”
“The doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious if you have a deep scar that is a door”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Survival can be summed up in three words never give up”
— Bear Grylls
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves”
— Thomas Merton
“Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it”
— Salvador Dali
“When the world is falling apart around you the first thing you do is get your own mind right”
— Man Haron Monis
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Do what you can with what you have where you are”
— Teddy Roosevelt
“In the end nobody wins unless everybody wins”
— Bruce Springsteen
“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God”
— Brother Lawrence
“Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better”
— Samuel Beckett
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.”
“They can because they think they can”
— Virgil
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart I am I am I am”
— Sylvia Plath
“Whatever anybody says or does assume positive intent you will be amazed at how your whole approach to a person or problem becomes very different”
— Indra Nooyi
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger”
“One who would pick the roses must not fear the thorns.”
— Saadi Shirazi
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Og Mandino
“If you change the way you look at things the things you look at change”
— Wayne Dyer
“When one door of happiness closes another opens.”
“Success is not easy and it is certainly not for the lazy”
— Vera Wang
“Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.”
“To love life more than the meaning of it is the most resilient stance of all”
— Dostoevsky
“Difficulties are things that show a person what they are”
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
— Persian Proverb
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Vulnerability is not winning or losing it is having the courage to show up when you cannot control the outcome”
“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
“When you find your path you must not be afraid you need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes”
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
“Do not fake it till you make it fake it till you become it”
— Amy Cuddy
“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't.”
“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks”
— Herodotus
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“Do not ask what the world needs ask what makes you come alive and go do it”
— Howard Thurman
“Just keep swimming”
— Dory from Finding Nemo
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
“You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be it is what is already here the inferno where we live every day that we form by being together”
— Italo Calvino
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.”
— Mignon McLaughlin
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare it is because we do not dare that they are difficult”
“Start where you are use what you have do what you can”
— Arthur Ashe
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how”
— Nietzsche
“Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life”
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.”
— Vivian Greene
“The secret of life is to have a task something you devote your entire life to something you bring everything to every minute of the day for the rest of your life”
— Henry Moore
“In the dark night of the soul bright flows the river of God”
— John of the Cross
“The world is full of suffering. It is also full of the overcoming of it.”
“Real discipline is built when you choose consistency over intensity.”
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom to know the difference”
— Reinhold Niebuhr
“Be like the bird that, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.”
“There is a saying in Tibetan that at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance”
— Alan Watts
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
— Washington Irving
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
— Khalil Gibran
“Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well.”
— Jack London
“In the midst of chaos there is also opportunity”
“I hated every minute of training but I said do not quit suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion”
— Muhammad Ali
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer always remember you have within you the strength the patience and the passion to reach for the stars”
— Harriet Tubman
“Where there is no hope, it is incumbent on us to invent it.”
— Voltaire
“Fall seven times stand up eight”
“I would rather be ashes than dust I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot”
“Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it”
“Who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The most effective way to do it is to do it”
— Amelia Earhart
“The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.”
— Mark Twain
“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning how to dance in the rain.”
“Almost every problem we face can be helped by our willingness to see it differently”
— Lori Gottlieb
“A just cause is not ruined by a few mistakes.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
— Margaret Thatcher
“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
— Booker T. Washington
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.”
“We never know how high we are till we are called to rise”
— Emily Dickinson
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Be the heroine of your life not the victim”
— Nora Ephron
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it.”
— Margaret Atwood
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch feeling lucky it is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency”
— Rebecca Solnit
“Courage does not always roar sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow”
“If we win the hearts and minds of employees we are going to have better business success because failures teach us resilience”
— Mary Barra
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
— Walt Whitman
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling but in rising every time we fall”
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
“Action springs not from thought but from a readiness for responsibility”
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
“The pine stays green in winter; wisdom is seeing that this is the nature of the pine.”
“You are your best thing”
— Toni Morrison
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise instead seek what they sought”
— Matsuo Basho
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe”
— Joanna Macy
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“First they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win”
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time”
— Leo Tolstoy
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality”
“I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall”
— Serena Williams
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent but the one most responsive to change”
— Charles Darwin
“Real discipline is built when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear not absence of fear”
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Happiness is a warm sunbeam, which may be obscured but never extinguished.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less”
— Marie Curie
“A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and further will enable a change in the destiny of humankind”
— Daisaku Ikeda
“It does not matter how many times you get knocked down but how many times you get up”
“May you have the courage to listen to the voice of desire that disturbs you when you have settled for something safe”
— John ODonohue
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
“You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
— Flavia de Luce
“A wounded deer leaps the highest.”
“A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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