"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage
"Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the figure of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Compassion
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Belief in Self
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Perseverance
"I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Well-being
"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