"Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once."

Paulo Coelho

"When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid."

Audre Lorde

"Like tiny seeds with potent power to push through tough ground and become mighty trees, we hold innate reserves of unimaginable strength. We are resilient."

Catherine DeVrye

"It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop."

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

William Ellery Channing

"Don’t let a bad day trick you into thinking you have a bad life."

Allie Newman

"No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save."

Annie Besant

"Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems."

Gever Tulley

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

C.S. Lewis

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement."

Albert Camus

"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal

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

J.K. Rowling