190 quotes
“Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.”
"To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be."
— Steven Pressfield
"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."
— Michael Jordan
"It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire."
— Marilynne Robinson
"I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott
"I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
"Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart."
— Joyce Carol Oates
"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."
— Helen Keller
"It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands new undertakings and new forms of expression."
— Eric Hoffer
"Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances—it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life."
— Elizabeth George
"Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
— Edmund Burke
"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."
— Eisenhower
"You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself."
— Carol Burnett
"That was her magic— she could still see the sunseteven on those darkest days."
— Atticus Poetry
"Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure."
— Anne Rice
"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."
— Albert Schweitzer
"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."
— Abraham Lincoln
"Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort."
— Morgan Freeman
"If you are going through hell, keep going"
— Sir Winston Churchill