“My own father had always said the measure of a man wasn't how many times or how hard he got knocked down, but how fast he got back up.”
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Sir Winston Churchill
5 quotes“If you are going through hell, keep going”
FDR
4 quotes“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
Louisa May Alcott
4 quotes“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Maya Angelou
3 quotes“You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air...”
Napoleon Hill
3 quotes“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
Napoleon
3 quotes“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
Tennessee Williams
3 quotes“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”
Helen Keller
3 quotes“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon
3 quotes“Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.”
Jojo Moyes
2 quotes“Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.”
Atticus Poetry
2 quotes“That was her magic— she could still see the sunseteven on those darkest days.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
2 quotes“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”