- Life is hard and unfair. That’s why you must get up one more time. That’s why you must keep going no matter what. Maxime Lagacé
- It’s when our back is against the wall that we most often find a new door. Neil Strauss
- It never gets easier. You either get stronger or life beats you down. Ed Latimore
- Comfort is the craving that can take away your life. Develop the power to resist it, and you become unstoppable. Johnny Uzan
- Your good fortune is not to need good fortune. Seneca (On Providence)
- Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor be dragged along by the body. Miyamoto Musashi
- Make solitude a part of your life. In order to work with difficulty, we need to gather our inner strength. Pema Chödrön
- The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn’t care too much. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)
- Holding on won’t make you strong, letting go will. Thibaut
- When one has not had a good father, one must create one. Friedrich Nietzsche
- You make yourself strong because it’s expected of you. You become confident because someone beside you is unsure. You turn into the person others need you to be. Jodi Picoult (Vanishing Acts)
- It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong. Friedrich Nietzsche (Beyond Good and Evil)
- How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. Marcus Aurelius
- The only way, is to learn to fight. Alain de Botton
- We must gain victory, not by assaulting the walls, but by accepting them. Only when this surrender is made can we assure ourselves of inward quietness, and locate the next step on the road to ultimate victory. James Gordon Gilkey
- I say, drop all your defences. Anyone can make a mistake — even you. Do not defend your mistakes; just accept them and move on. When you are totally defenceless, that is when you will be completely strong. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- How to develop old school mental toughness: 1. Resist impulses 2. Get uncomfortable 3. Workout 4. Eat healthy 5. Sleep 6. Set goals 7. Get organized 8. Meditate 9. Manage time 10. Live in gratitude 11. Relentless determination. Ralph Napolitano
- Your brain is the most powerful weapon in the world. David Goggins
- You cannot experience the fullness of your life when you live to avoid hurt. Iyanla Vanzant
- The world is too big and too busy to care about you. This is a blessing, for it makes you free. @LifeMathMoney
- I’ve yet to meet a strong person with an easy past. Ed Latimore
- Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave. Epictetus (Enchiridion, Amazon book)
- Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don’t worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory. Eleanor Roosevelt
- When I was a boy I used to think that strong meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is not seen. Real strength has to do with helping others. Fred Rogers
- If you aren’t big enough to stand criticism, you’re too small to be praised. Earl Deason
- I don’t stop when I’m tired. I stop when I’m done. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
- What makes you beautiful is your presence. What makes you wise is your perseverance. Maxime Lagacé
- Be more than motivated, be more than driven, become literally obsessed to the point where people think you’re f*cking nuts. David Goggins (Can’t Hurt Me)
- No one thinks about you in quite the way you think. No one will love you in the way that you hope. No one can give you what you have always longed for. No one will make you what you seek to become. To lean is to fall. Kapil Gupta
- It is a sign of weakness to avoid showing signs of weakness. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (The Bed of Procrustes)