Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

Sometimes things don't go exactly as you'd wish. You have to be mentally strong to overcome those moments.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

If things sometimes get tough, you can't ask yourself what impact it's having on you. It isn't an option.

I think I was as mentally tough as I've ever been. I felt like I handled the situation both on and off the court extremely well. I felt like I needed to.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

To be emotionally resilient and to overcome your circumstances, not through fighting, but through being courageous and having endurance was something I thought was of primary importance.

It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.

In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping.

You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.

Why did the achievers overcome problems while thousands are overwhelmed by theirs? They refused to hold on to the common excuses for failure. They turned their stumbling blocks into stepping stones. They realized that they couldn't determine every circumstance in life but they could determine their choice of attitude towards every circumstance.

The great challenge is to refuse to let the bad things that happen to us do bad things to us. That is the crucial difference between adversity and tragedy.

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenges are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Although it may seem like it, life will never give you more than you can handle. That doesn't mean it's going to be easy; in fact, quite the opposite.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

If you're strong enough on the inside, you can handle anything that comes at you on the outside.

We are not measured by the trials we meet -- only by those we overcome.

When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a sword, or it can become your backbone. Either you fall apart and sob, or you say, 'Right. What's next?

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.