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