ADVERSITY
"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not falling down but in staying down." — Mary Pickford
"Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in public and private life have been the consequences of action without thought." — Bernard Baruch
"Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn to exercise his will — his personal responsibility." — Albert Schweitzer
"You don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, doing it the best you can. What can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can." — Joe Namath
"It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones." — John W. De Forest
"One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments." — Henry Ward Beecher
"If you are not being criticized, you may not be doing much." - Donald Rumsfeld
"A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience." -Elbert Hubbard
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important then one's fear." – Author Ambrose Redmoon
"Don't let minor setbacks cloud your vision of the future. Be like Captain James Cook, the famous English explorer. He faced monumental obstacles, but he kept sailing on. Said the captain, 'I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.'" Neil Eskelin
"Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier." -- Charles F. Kettering
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." – Eleanor Roosevelt
"Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in the world." – Helen Keller
"Ignorance is not bliss, it is oblivion." -Philip Wylie
"If things start going wrong, having a consistent approach prevents panic. There is nothing worse than entering an important situation and changing the way you do things because of pressure." -Shane Murphy
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life." -Elizabeth Kenny
"This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave." - Elmer Davis
"Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change." - Robert Kennedy
"So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm." - Winston Churchill
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
"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 something, at whatever cost, must be attained." - Marie Curie
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." - Winston Churchill
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts." - Edward R. Murrow
"Nothing great has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe something inside them was superior to circumstances." - Bruce Barton
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning." - Winston Churchill
"If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then start to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking." - Lou Holtz
"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
"The walking of Man is falling forwards." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater." -- Albert Einstein
"Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed. Realistically, the more problems we have and the larger they are, the greater our value to our employer." -- Zig Ziglar
Every winner has scars. -- Herbert Casson
Life is full of obstacle illusions. -- Grant Frazier
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
-- Seneca
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life.
-- Anthony RobbinsAdversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes it's jewels with.
-- Leighton
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
-- George Eliot
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
-- Isak Dinesen
Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
-- Helen Keller
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
-- The Buddha
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
-- Marcus Aurelius
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
-- Bagehot
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
-- Elie Wiesel
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.
-- T.S. Eliot
Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.
-- Greg Louganis
Security is mostly a superstition; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-- Helen Keller
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, keep moving.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been.
-- Sally Edwards
The race isn't always to the swiftest, but to those who keep on running.
-- Unknown
The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.
-- Arthur Clarke
It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement; and who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
-- Teddy Roosevelt
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