100+ Inspiring Quotes to Help You Get Through Tough Times

"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

"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 you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength – if we have the virtue of resilience."

- Eric Greitens

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Never give in. Never, never, never."

- Winston Churchill

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength."

- Napoléon Bonaparte

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"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

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you hit; it’s about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done. Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain’t you. You’re better than that!"

- Rocky Balboa (Movie Quote)

"“If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep going”"

- Martin Luther King jr.

"We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

- Barbara De Angelis

"I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"It’s not whether you get knocked down. It’s whether you get up."

- Vince Lombardi

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Nelson Mandela

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"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

"My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present."

- Steve Goodier

"Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going."

- Yasmin Mogahed

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

- Confucius

"All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me…. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

- Walt Disney

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice."

- Bob Marley

"Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again."

- Nelson Mandela

"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

- Helen Keller

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"Tough times never last, but tough people do"

- Robert Schuller

"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."

- Steve Maraboli

"No one escapes pain, fear, and suffering. Yet from pain can come wisdom, from fear can come courage, from suffering can come strength - if we have the virtue of resilience."

- Eric Greitens

"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

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

- Kahlil Gibran

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

- Ernest Hemingway

"There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster."

- 14th Dalai Lama

"And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear."

- Paulo Coelho

"She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."

- Maya Angelou

"Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."

- Dalai Lama

"Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it."

- Joel Osteen

"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles."

- Christopher Reeve

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”"

- Rudyard Kipling

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people."

- Randy Pausch

"You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages."

- Michelle Obama

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

- Haruki Murakami

"Let perseverance be your engine and hope your fuel."

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation in which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own."

- Michelle Obama

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations."

- Zig Ziglar

"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

- Lou Holtz

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."

- Randy Pausch

"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason."

- Andrew Solomon

"Resilience is the ability to attack while running away."

- Wes Fessler

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Resilience is based on compassion for ourselves as well as compassion for others."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"Confidence, courage and determined spirit are vital for surviving hard times."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"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."

- Zahid Abas

"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials."

- Chinese Proverb

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

- Leo Buscaglia

"And hard times are good in their own way, too. Because the only way you can achieve true happiness is if you experience true sadness as well. It's all about light and shade. Balance."

- Gabrielle Williams

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"Going through challenging things can teach you a lot, and they also make you appreciate the times that aren't so challenging."

- Carrie Fisher

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it."

- Ziad K. Abdelnour

"Ring the bells that still can ring forget your perfect offering there is a crack in everything that's how the light gets in"

- Leonard Cohen

"I survived because the fire inside burned brighter than the fire around me. I fell down into that dark chasm, but the flame burned on and on."

- Joshua Graham

"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles."

- Wayne Dyer

"Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained."

- Marie Curie

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"You be greater than your feelings. I don’t demand this of you—life does. Otherwise, you’ll be washed away by feelings. You’ll be washed out to sea and never seen again."

- Phillip Roth

"It is only in our darkest hours that we may discover the true strength of the brilliant light within ourselves that can never, ever, be dimmed."

- Doe Zantamata

"I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead, others come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me."

- Dr. Seuss

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When written in Chinese the word “crisis” is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity."

- John F Kennedy

"Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing."

- L.M. Montgomery

"A diamond is a chunk of coal that did well under pressure."

- Henry Kissinger

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog."

- Mark Twain

"Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."

- Seneca

"Every champion was once a contender that refused to give up."

- Rocky Balboa

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."

- Sir Edmund Hillary

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Things turn out the best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

- John Wooden

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work."

- Harry Golden

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

- J.K. Rowling

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity."

- William Samuel Johnson

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare."

- Angela Duckworth

"Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they’re supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."

- Roger Crawford

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

- Louisa May Alcott

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

- James Allen

"Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong."

- Sarah Dessen

"We all have battles to fight. And it’s often in those battles that we are most alive: it’s on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."

- Eric Greitens

"Where there is no struggle, there is no strength"

- Oprah

"I will breathe. I will think of solutions. I will not let my worry control me. I will not let my stress level break me. I will simply breathe. And it will be okay. Because I don’t quit."

- Shayne McClendon

"Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing."

- Emma Donoghue

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us."

- William J. Brennan, Jr.

"Resilience isn't a single skill. It's a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive."

- Jean Chatzky

"The difference between a strong man and a weak one is that the former does not give up after a defeat."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance, Never settle for the path of least resistance."

- Lee Ann Womack

"Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths."

- Drew Barrymore

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

- Greg Kincaid

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong."

- Margaret George

"Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain."

- Emil Dorian

"Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Bob Richards

"Energy and persistence conquers all things."

- Benjamin Franklin

"One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered."

- Michael J. Fox

"The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal."

- Criss Jami

"Successful people demonstrate their resilience through their dedication to making progress every day, even if that progress is marginal."

- Jonathan Mills

"He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions."

- Louisa May Alcott

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it. Raise your sail and begin."

- Gregory S Williams

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong... I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."

- Audrey Hepburn

"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

- Thomas Paine

"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"What helps you persevere is your resilience and commitment."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Happiness isn’t something that depends on our surroundings…it’s something we make inside ourselves."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears."

- Demi Lovato

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

- Stephen Covey

"Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased."

- Joel Osteen

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."

- Ovid

"It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment."

- Bram Stoker

"Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work through difficult problems."

- Gever Tulley

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

- William Ellery Channing

"I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person."

- Rita Mero

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."

- Maya Angelou

"Only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided."

- J.K. Rowling

"No matter how bleak or menacing a situation may appear, it does not entirely own us. It can't take away our freedom to respond, our power to take action."

- Ryder Carroll

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength."

- Chris Bradford

"Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."

- Catherine DeVrye

"She stood in the storm, & and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience."

- Jaeda Dewalt

"A good half of the art of living is resilience."

- Alain de Botton

"Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible."

- Mike Norton

"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Grief and resilience live together."

- Michelle Obama

"We all have battles to fight. And it's often in those battles that we are most alive: it's on the frontlines of our lives that we earn wisdom, create joy, forge friendships, discover happiness, find love, and do purposeful work."

- Eric Greitens

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon."

- Mizuta Masahide

"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces."

- Shane Koyczan

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity."

- Coco Chanel

"When you go through something, like, you learn to appreciate little things - the birds, trees, flowers."

- Grizz Chapman

"There is meaning in every journey that is unknown to the traveler."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack."

- Germany Kent

"One word of encouragement can be enough to spark someone’s motivation to continue with a difficult challenge."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going."

- Timon

"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is merely the comparison of one state to the other. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."

- Alexandre Dumas

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

- Epictetus

"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

- Latin Proverb

"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame"

- Uncle Iroh to Zukko

"Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"Now and then for no good reason a man can figure out, life will just haul off and knock him flat, slam him agin’ the ground so hard it seems like all his insides is busted. But it’s not all like that. A lot of it’s mighty fine, and you can’t afford to waste the good part frettin’ about the bad. That makes it all bad…. Sure, I know – sayin’ it’s one thing and feelin’ it’s another. But I’ll tell you a trick that’s sometimes a big help. When you start lookin’ around for something good to take the place of the bad, as a general rule you can find it."

- Jim Coates, Old Yeller

"By the darkness, stars are revealed."

- Evette Carter

"A proud heart can survive general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone."

- Chinua Achebe

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

- Chuck Swindoll

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down."

- Margaret Atwood

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness, that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn’t come as a result of getting something we don’t have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

- Frederick Keonig

"Freud's favourite quote for rough times is from Milton's Paradise Lost: '[Let us consult] what reinforcement we may gain from hope, if not what resolution from despair.'"

- Milton

"The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground."

- Author Unknown

"Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."

"This too shall come to pass. Just hold on."

"You can't skip chapters, that's not how life works. You have to read every line, meet every character. You won't enjoy all of it. Hell, some chapters will make you cry for weeks. You will read things you don't want to read, you will have moments when you don't want the pages to end. But you have to keep going. Stories keep the world revolving. Live yours, don't miss out."

"We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."

"The darkest nights, produce the brightest stars"

"In the midst of winter, I found within me an invincible summer"

"Before something great happens, everything falls apart"

"Harder the struggle, more glorious the triumph!!!"

"I am strong because I’ve been weak. I am fearless because I’ve been afraid."

- Unknown

"Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anyone else."

- Unknown

"people don’t care about what you do right or what you do wrong….everyone is so wrapped up in themselves, they will forget about your triumphs and your mistakes way before you do."

"So do I. And so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."

"It is possible to be right and one of the best and bright, and still getting treated like faulty, not so up-to-mark. That is not your fault, that is life."

"Start where you are, Use what you have, Do what you can"