"All that I am, or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
- Abraham Lincoln
Love
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
- Abraham Lincoln
Leadership
"Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end, you are sure to succeed."
- Abraham Lincoln
Courage
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
- Abraham Lincoln
Responsibility
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity