They tried to bury us. They just didn't know we were seeds.

The only way out is through.

Napoleon Hill had a beautiful spin on the moments when things don't work out the way you planned and unexpected hardship falls on you. Instead of coming from a negative place and looking at those moments as a "failure," he called them "temporary defeats.

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

Confidence is Going after Moby Dick in a rowboat, And taking the tarter sauce with you. A Bullfighter who goes in the ring with mustard on his sword.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

It's the willingness to keep pushing through new challenges, not shrink from them back into your comfort zone, that separates the successful from the unsuccessful.

If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

I try not to think of that," Major Danby admitted frankly. "I try to concentrate on only the big result and to forget that they are succeeding, too. I try to pretend that they are not significant." "That's my trouble, you know," Yossarian mused sympathetically, folding his arms. "Between me and every ideal I always find Scheisskopfs, Peckems, Korns and Cathcarts. And that sort of changes the ideal.

As one acquaintance of mine says, you cannot defeat Goliath with your mouth shut.