If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
Endure and preserve yourselves for better things.
Every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.
What cannot be altered must be borne not blamed.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Obstacles cannot crush me every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the mu...
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.
What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding send...
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white p...
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
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