“Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it.”
"Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart do not know how to laugh either."
- Golda Meir
Compassion
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life."
- Golda Meir
Self-awareness
"You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity."
- Golda Meir
Courage
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."
- Golda Meir
Teamwork
"Don’t be so humble — you are not that great."
- Golda Meir
Self-esteem
"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