Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is what it also takes to sit down and listen.
Sir Winston Churchill

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
Steve Jobs

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

Life is like riding a bicycle, in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

The elevator to success is broken.
You'll have to take the stairs.
Joe Girard

Each time a person stands up for an ideal,
or acts to improve the lot of others...
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring,
those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.
Napoleon Hill

I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.
Thomas Edison, Inventor

The ones who are crazy enough
to think they can change the world,
are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs

Traditional thinking is all about what is.
Future thinking will also need to be about what can be.
Edward de Bono

Once we believe in ourselves,
we can risk curiosity, wonder,
spontaneous delight, or any experience
that reveals the human spirit.
e. e. cummings

The future you see
is the future you get.
Robert G. Allen

It takes courage to grow up
and become who you really are.
e. e. cummings

Courage is resistance to fear,
mastery of fear,
not absence of fear.
Mark Twain

Change is the law of life.
And those who look only to the past
or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life shrinks or expands
in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin

Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds.
Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.
Toller Cranston

There is always one moment in childhood
when the door opens and lets the future in.
Deepak Chopra

When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.
Tarthang Tulku

It may sound strange, but many champions are made champions by setbacks.
Bob Richards

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth - not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha

It's when you run away that you're most liable to stumble.
Casey Robinson

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
Audre Lorde

Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. Accordingly a genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Thomas Edison

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is not a matter of holding good cards,
but of playing a poor hand well.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Play like you're in first, but train like you're in second.
Unknown

All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure.
Roger Staubach

Passion, not pedigree, will win in the end.
Jon Bon Jovi

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka

The difference between a good athlete and a top athlete is the top athlete will do the mundane things when nobody's looking.
Susan True

When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then Willpower will be no problem.
Emil Zatopek, Czech Olympic great.

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog! The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell.
African Tribal Saying

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.
Sir Thomas Brown

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.
Unknown

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Louisa May Alcott

…we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller

Problems are not stop signs, they're guidelines.
Robert Schuler.

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.
Helen Keller

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.
Benjamin Disraeli

He who has a why to live for, can endure almost any how.
Dr. Victor Frankyl, Psychiatrist

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life only demands from the strength that you possess.
Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.
Dag Hammarskjold

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of all human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Sir Winston Churchill

Resilient children tend to have parents who are concerned with their children's education, who participate in that education, who direct their children everyday task, and who are aware of their children interests and goals. Another important characteristic of resilient children is having at least one significant adult in their lives.
Linda F. Winfield

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

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. Christopher Robin to Pooh
A. A. Milne quotes

It is not the strongest
of the species that survive,
nore the most intelligent,
but the one most responsive to change.
Darwin

Behold the turtle: he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conat, 1893-1978, Educator and Diplomat

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.
Napoleon Hill

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves.
Walter Bonatti.

Cry if you want to, I won't tell you not to,
I won't try to cheer you, I 'll just be here if you want me to be.
C. Porter

Thinking is easy, acting difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action, the most difficult thing in the world.
Goethe

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.
Mary Anne Radmacher

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Sir Winston Churchill

Challenges can be stepping stones or stumbling blocks.
It's just a matter of how you view them.
Unknown

Never, never, never, never give up.
Sir Winston Churchill

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstein

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Unknown

Let the past drift away with the water.
Japanese Saying

Obstacles are what we see when we take our eyes off of the goal.
Crossman

History had demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
B.C. Forbes

The marvellous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision be cleared, ambition insured and success achieved.
Helen Keller

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
Japanese proverb

The sturdiest tree is not found in the shelter of the forest but high upon some rocky crag, where its daily battle with the elements shapes it into a thing of beauty.
Unknown

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There’s no thrill in easy sailing,
When the sky is clear and blue.
There’s no joy in merely doing
Things which anyone can do.
But there is some fulfillment
That is mighty sweet to take,
When you reach a destination,
You thought you couldn’t make.
Unknown

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Long-range goals keep you from being frustrated by short-term failures.
Unknown

Little drops of water wear down big stones.
Russian Proverb

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.
Helen Keller

What matters is not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
Coach Bear Bryant

Nothing in the 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 is not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Seize the day, Carpe Diem.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65BC-8BC

In the midst of winter,
I finally learned
there was in me
an invincible summer.
Albert Camus

Healing is a matter of time, but sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
Hypocrites 460 – 400 B.C.

If we are to lift ourselves out of this morass we must shift our sights from the superficial to the sacrificial.
Jesse Jackson

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
James F Bell

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Courage follows action.
Mack R. Douglas

Resilient children have at least one significant adult in their lives.
Linda F. Winfield

Let us rid ourselves
of all things that hinder us
and run with courage and endurance
the race that is set before us.
Hebrews 12:1

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they get render a different results. Tears will get you sympathy, but sweat will get you change.
Jesse Jackson

Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within. Franz Kafka

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born
until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world
is born.
Anais Nin

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of
respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one
family grow up under the same roof.
Richard Bach

If God brings you to it,
He will bring you through it.
Author: Unknown

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F.Kennedy

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Fall seven times, stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Picturize, prayerize, actualize.
Norman Vincent Peale

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
Horace

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
Malcom Stevenson Forbes

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
President Calvin Coolidge

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be.
Charlie - Tremendous- Jones

Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
Samuel Lover

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.
Helen Keller

Training is what you are doing while your opponent is sleeping in.
Brian Owe

Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein

I was told over and over again that I would never be successful,
that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was
simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say
"We'll just have to see".
Dick Fosbury
(He won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games
after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.)

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Mary Kay Ash

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I'm committed to?
Anthony Robbins

What you repress will make you regress.
Michael H. Ballard

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
Oprah Winfrey

People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
Albert Bandura

What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Napolean Hill

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Albert Bandura

Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there!
Will Rogers

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has Genius, Power and Magic in it.
Begin it now.
Goethe

Winners lose much more often than losers. So if you keep losing but you’re still trying, keep it up! You’re right on track.
Matthew Keith Groves

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength, but through persistence.
Buddha

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
Prescott

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill

“In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.”
Albert Bandura

“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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James Arthur Baldwin

“Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
Bern Williams

“A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.”
Henry Louis Mencken

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.
Jim Sensenbrenner

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.
David Brudnoy

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Albert Bandura

The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
-Japanese Proverb

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-Abraham Lincoln

Forget mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do right now, and do it. Today is your lucky day.”
Will Durant

When your face is in the dirt, dust off and order dessert.
Laura Teresa Marquez

To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
e. e. cummings

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope. They give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I find my courage wavering I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on.
- Helen Hayes

     
I went to the woods to live deliberately, to front the essential facts of life and learn what they had to teach; and not, when it came time to die, discover that I had not lived.
- H.D. Thoreau

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark. In effect, the people who change our lives the most begin to
sing to us while we are still in darkness. If we listen to
their song, we will see the dawning of a new part of ourselves.
- Rabindranth Tagore

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us. What we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine

I can teach someone how to be a hard worker. I can teach risk-taking. But it’s that thing about wanting to expose yourself and face down your truths, your ugly truths….that’s the stuff that stops people from being big stars.
Ivana Chubbuck, Acting Coach

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done 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, who comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
President of the United States

You'll either step forward into growth or step back into safety. Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. Abraham Maslow

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T.S. Eliot

Only by attracting the best people will you accomplish great deeds. Colin Powell

On the path to heaven, there will be occasional rocks in your shoes -- yet, the views are magnificent, the pain is bearable, and turning back is not an option."
Laura Teresa Marquez

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction."
Thomas A. Edison

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
Martin Luther King, Jr

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
James A. Baldwin

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters.
All of us do well when things are going well, but the thing that distinguishes athletes is the ability to do well in times of great stress, urgency and pressure."
Roger Staubach

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
- JFK

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- JFK

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters--one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."
-JFK

You know nothing for sure . . . except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
- JFK

-"Mr. Nixon in the last seven days has called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied
Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican,
but he says that is getting low."
- JFK

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer.
- JFK


The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement
anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their
old measurements and expected them to fit me.
- Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals
- Sir Winston Churchill

What luck for rulers that men do not think.
- Adolf Hitler

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Walso Emerson

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice;
it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryant

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
- Albert Einstein.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sureabout the former.
- Albert Einstein

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a ma
tter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
-Einstien

I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. These are things which he has thought about as a child. But my intellectual development was retarded,as a result of which I began
to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up.
-Einstien

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a
pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity
-Einstien

If I had my life to live over again, I'd be a plumber
-Einstein

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We
have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
-Einstein

When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know.
But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!

"The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles.
The wireless is the same, only without the cat. "
-Einstein


"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
-Einstein

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei

It is easier to stay out than get out
- Mark Twain

...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
Bhagavad Gita (BC 400-)

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that
all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they
laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they
also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan.

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our disposition, not our circumstances.
Martha Washington

We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
-Barack Obama

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.
Lin Yutang

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge -- myth is more potent than history -- dreams are more powerful than facts -- hope always triumphs over experience -- laughter is the cure for grief -- love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure but from hope to hope.
Samuel Johnson

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

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.
James Arthur Baldwin

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’
Actually, who are you not to be?
Marianne Williamson

A man may fail many times but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
J. Paul Getty

It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance and sweeps away all obstacles.
Claude M. Bristol

There is no greater loan than the sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
Leo Buscaglia

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.
William Congreve

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources - spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
Norman Cousins

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family. Abraham Maslow