Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you... yet, someone survived... You can do anything you choose to do.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.
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