Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

– Horace

Storms make oaks take deeper root.

– George Herbert

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

– Nido Qubein

Never let other people decide your limitations or capabilities.

– Unknown

Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finshed: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

– Richard Bach

If you can’t change circumstances change the way you respond to them.

– Tim Hansel

A crow was thirsty and flew to find some water. Seeing a jug, it landed by it and attempted to drink from it. However, the neck was too steep and the water level too low. Undeterred, the crow turned around grasped pebbles in its beak and began droping them into the jar. Eventually, it had filled the jar with stones and the water had risen to the top. It then drank its fill and flew, satisfied.

No matter how hard, no matter how long, success and satisfaction will come if you continue to try.

-Japanese Proverb

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald

It’s always darkest before it goes pitch black.

-Despair.com

“Life happens while you’re busy making other plans.”

“10% if life is what happens to you, 90% is how you react to it..”