Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
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.
Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.
It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. And living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on Earth.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.
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