Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I build my life.

I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

When you don't come from struggle, gaining appreciation is a quality that's difficult to come by.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you’re in the perfect position to pray.

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

If we all can persevere, if we can in every land and office look beyond our own shores and ambitions, then surely the age will dawn in which the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Against all odds and despite all the obstacles, we are going to make it.

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise.

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, in you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively.