There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.” ~ Charles Dickens

“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.” ~ Winston Churchill

“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr

“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.” ~ Maya AngeloBeing brave means knowing that when you fail, you don’t fail forever.” ~ Lana Del Rey

“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” ~ Drew Barrymore

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”~ William Ellery Channing

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”~ Khalil Gibran

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”~ Vincent Van Gogh

“The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.”~ Criss Jami

“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.” ~ Paulo Coelho

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.” ~ Peter Marshall

“When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.” ~ Thomas A. Edison

“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” ~ Jodi Picoult

“We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.” ~ Isabel Allende

“We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.”~ J.K. Rowling

“Nothing is more beautiful than the smile that has struggled through the tears.”~ Demi Lovato

“He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.”~ Louisa May Alcott

“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.”~ Maya Angelou

“And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.”~ Paulo Coelho

“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.” ~ John Beecher- 

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.” ~ Orison Swett Marden

“The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” ~ Thomas Paine

“Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.” ~ Nelson Mandela

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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” ~ Ambrose Redmoon

“We draw our strength from the very despair in which we have been forced to live.” ~  Cesar Chavez

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing- 

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.” – Joyce Meyer

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” – Saadi

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.” – William Penn

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” – Samuel Johnson

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.” – Napoleon Hill

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience is the companion of wisdom.” – Saint Augustine

Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.” ~ George-Louis de Buffon

Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.” ~ Eknath Easwaran

Learning patience can be a difficult experience, but once conquered you will find life is easier.” Catherine Pulsifer

When you encounter various trials, big or small, be full of joy. They’re opportunities to learn patience.” – Scott Curran

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey- 

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.” – Vera Nazarian

. “Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.” – Victor Hugo

. “The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.” – William Arthur Ward

. “To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.” – Joseph de Maistre

. “Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

. “I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!” – Rainer Maria Rilke

Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.” – George Louis de Buffon

Patience is the best medicine” – John Florio

Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers.” – Jarod Kintz ♥️