No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
Napoleon Hill
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
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
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Marcus Aurelius
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Mark Twain
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going.
Norman Cousins
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
Maya Angelou
The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela
Even the best horse may stumble.
Norwegian proverbs
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
Paulo Coelho
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Thomas Paine
In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.
Isaac Asimov
Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
Bill Cosby
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Abraham Lincoln
Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
Les Brown
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
Epictetus
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
