I feel just like the boy who stubbed his toe—too damned badly hurt to laugh and too damned proud to cry!

We have numerous examples of perseverance in the scriptures, in secular history, and in our own experiences.

Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8—12

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.