Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt

Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don't so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head." — Joe Henderson

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” — Thomas Jefferson

At the end of your struggles, challenges, and obstacles comes the mental strength to cross many boundaries in the future.” — Edmond Mbiaka 

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.” — Rumi

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” — Charles Dickens 

You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!” — Israelmore Ayivor 

If I keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I’m going to get there.” — Rachel Joyce 

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

If you can’t fly, run. If you can’t run, walk. If you can’t walk, crawl. But by all means, keep moving.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.” —Veronica Roth

We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” —Kavita Ramdas

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

We will either find a way, or make one.” —Hannibal Barca

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

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

. “No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.” —Greg Kincaid 

We are stronger, gentler, more resilient and more beautiful than any of us imagine.” —Mark Nepo

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

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.” —Marie Curie

If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.” —Toni Morrison

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

There’s nothing more beautiful and attractive than a person who knows who they are.” —Demi Lovato

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” —Christopher Reeve 

26. “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