“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa
“We should always pray for help, but we should always listen for inspiration and impression to proceed in ways different from those we may have thought of.”
– John H. Groberg
“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
– Michael Jordan
“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”
– Epicetus
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
– Robert Schuller
“Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it.”
– William Hazlitt
“Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”
– Francis Bacon
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.”
– Leroy Satchel Paige
“The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them.”
– Unknown
“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
– Elie Weisel
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail.”
– Nelson Mandela
“If it’s not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it’s a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.”
– Sara Evans
“Use what you’ve been through as fuel, believe in yourself and be unstoppable!”
– Yvonne Pierre
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.”
– Robert Frost
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
– Mary Engelbreit