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