“Mandela did go to prison, and he went in there as a burning revolutionary. But look what came out. Mandela let us down.”
"I'm like thousands of women in South Africa who lost their men to cities and prisons... I stand defiant, tall and strong."
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Bravery
"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