Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
Nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done!
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.
First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor.
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life.
The signature of the truly great versus the merely successful is not the absence of difficulty, but the ability to come back from setbacks.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.
Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them.
Some things benefit from shocks; they thrive and grow when exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder, and stressors.
It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Steady your nerves. Discipline your emotions. See the opportunity within the obstacle.
The Stoic does not seek to avoid difficulty but to avoid being defeated by it.
