Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path, and you will find you have crossed the mountain. – Unknown
No one is going to hand me success. I must go out and get it myself. That’s why I’m here. To dominate. To conquer. Both the world, and myself. — Unknown
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. For every challenge encountered, there is opportunity for growth. — Unknown
Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock. — Unknown
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going.
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. — Christopher Robin to Pooh
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.