I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da Vinci
Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean Paul Richter
I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Michael Jordan
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Paulo Coelho
With self-discipline most anything is possible.
Theodore Roosevelt
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
Joseph Addison
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
George S. Patton
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Elbert Hubbard
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
All happiness depends on courage and work.
Honor de Balzac
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.
Charles Dickens
Nothing succeeds like success.
Alexandre Dumas
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.
John C. Maxwell
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S Lewis
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
Miguel de Cervantes
Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?
Nelson Mandela
Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.
Ronald Reagan
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
Abraham Lincoln
