“Have you ever been hurt, and the place tries to heal a bit, and you just pull the scar off of it over and over again?”
"Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground."
- Rosa Parks
Integrity
"We will fail when we fail to try."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"The only tired I was, was tired of giving in."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
- Rosa Parks
Courage
"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