- If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome. Napoleon Hill
- Fools resist. The wise embrace. Maxime Lagacé
- “I love life with its twists and turns.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Adversity is an opportunity to show great character. Bad things are good things in disguise. Gal Shapira
- We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t. Frank A. Clark
- “I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “You will encounter many challenges in life. But you must never be defeated by the challenges.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you’d get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you’ll never really enjoy it when things go right.” ― Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
- “Be daring, be passionate and persistently pursue your dreams.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita , Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “…the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island
- “The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. Sun Tzu
- Any experience — good or bad — can have value. Unlocking that value is determined by our choices. Mark Manson
- “If you saturate your mind with positive thoughts, it will sustain you in any situation.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.” ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
- “There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.” ― Nick Hornby, About a Boy
- “We thrive in hardships by God’s grace.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- There is tremendous power in acceptance. To fully accept suffering and misfortune frees you from fear. @TheStoicEmperor
- “Adversity is awakening of spirit.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Did you have a rough month? I did 🙁 but, you know what? There’s no time to dwell on a missed opportunity or worry about what I should’ve done or said, beating myself up & making myself miserable about my mistakes. That doesn’t work. So will take notes from that, put it behind me, move on & finish the year STRONG” ― Pablo
- “Funerals aren’t scheduled.” ― Benjamin J. Carey, Barefoot in November
- “You have to be mentally prepared to handle any situation.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.” ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
- “Faithfulness imparts God’s reason for all circumstances. No matter what the world says, losing is no longer an option.” ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
- “God controls every circumstance.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
- “There is no Jesus without Judas, no Martin Luther King, Jr., without the Klan; no Ali without Joe Frazier; no freedom without tyranny. No wisdom exists that does not include perspective. Relativity is the greatest gift.” ― Chris Crutcher, King of the Mild Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography
- “Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.” ― Henry James, Theory of Fiction: Henry James
- “Endurance is spiritual.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- Learn to lose. This is arguably much more important than learning to win. Yvan Byeajee
- “You can use the stumbling blocks to build your success.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!