“Ignore failure. Try anew until you succeed.”
“It’s only ‘over’ because you’ve neglected to seek out the God Who has placed a door in every single wall.”
“Whoever has faith, fears no defeat, for this is the energy that fuels determination to keep going forward until the goal is achieved.”
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don t quit when you re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”
“Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!”
“If plan A doesn t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you re in Japan.”
“Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or thirty-five? Why is it that one is extinguished by consumption, another puts a bullet in his head, a third seeks oblivion in vodka, cards, a fourth, in order to stifle fear and anguish, cynically tramples underfoot the portrait of his pure, beautiful youth? Why is it that, once fallen, we do not try to rise, and, having lost one thing, we do not seek another? Why?”
“T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho’ much is taken, much abides; and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Mov’d earth and heaven, that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
“In order to share one s true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still.”
“Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.”
“A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.”
“Be determined to not give up, to do what you love, seek peace, do what you can, be true to you, and find a way.”
“Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.”
“No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.”
“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”