If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist.

I like to overcome great challenges.

Without hope, the only thing that keeps you going is either momentum or fear.

We all get where we're going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.

Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they arrive. The turning point in the lives of those who succeed usually comes at some moment of crisis,through which they are introduced to their other selves.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Failure is man-made circumstance. It is never real until accepted by man as permanent.

Failure cannot cope with persistence.