The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

If people knew how hard worked to achieve my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

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

There is no education like adversity.

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

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Acceptance doesn’t mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there’s got to be a way through it.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

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

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.