Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaAs fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius CiceroI love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‚Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
Leonardo da VinciWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas CarlyleHistory, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
Maya AngelouIn the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
Lao TzuWhat then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
VoltaireWhat lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David ThoreauI don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.
Stephen HawkingThere is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan PoeCourage is grace under pressure.
Ernest HemingwayYou cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.
Pope FrancisWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent Van GoghThe British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard ShawThere is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
Henry David ThoreauHow one life turns out is not dependent on what people do to us or what they don’t do for us.
Joyce MeyerWhat we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.
Jeff BezosThe greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph AddisonWhen I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, ‚Don’t get comfortable, because we may not be here long.‘
LeBron JamesWhat we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
C. S. LewisI have discovered that my interest in my dear pupil, Mabel, has ripened into a far deeper feeling than that of mere friendship. In fact, I know that I have learned to love her very sincerely.
Alexander Graham BellWhen I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.
Robert KiyosakiI make friends faster and easier than journalists.
Anthony BourdainHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWe occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillA dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.
George W. BushOne never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Hermann HesseNo person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Alice WalkerIn other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.
Colin PowellThat’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
Barack ObamaThere are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.
Mark TwainBy that sin fell the angels.
William ShakespeareAcquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas JeffersonThe devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
Albert EinsteinThere’s many ups and downs in the fight game.
Conor McGregorMonsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen KingPeople say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.
George BestAdversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
Samuel JohnsonSo many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?
Tom BradyWhen the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.
Joel OsteenA family shares hardships and a connected history.
Kamala HarrisThis and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
PlatoMan, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.
Napoleon HillI feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.
DJ KhaledI became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
Taylor SwiftTemptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
H. L. MenckenA fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel JohnsonPerhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya AngelouI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingThe pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.
Marilyn MonroeWe will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.
Joyce MeyerTemptation is a woman’s weapon and man’s excuse.
H. L. MenckenI choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar WildeAmericans never quit.
Douglas MacArthurPower is not sufficient evidence of truth.
Samuel JohnsonAmerica makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.
E. E. CummingsI’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.
Christopher Hitchens