There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Defeat is a state of mind. You are defeated only when you accept defeat, and assume the hopeless mindset of a defeated person.

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

A winner never taught me how to quit.

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.