Robert E. Lee Quotes

If we want to cultivate hopefulness, we have to be willing to be flexible and demonstrate perseverance. Not every goal will look and feel the same. Tolerance for disappointment, determination, and a belief in self are the heart of hope.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

It's a long, hard road and it's going to have its bumps; there are going to be times when you fall and times when you don't feel like going on anymore, times when you're just crazy tired but it takes focusing on that one step you're taking. That's what I'm trying to do with the marathon; I don't think about the miles that are coming down the road, I don't think about the mile I'm on right now, I don't think about the miles I've already covered. I think about what I'm doing right now, just being lost in the moment.

Hey. Pain can last a moment, it can last a day, it can last a week, it can last a long..long time, but it can't last forever and the only thing that can last forever is if you quit.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

Mental toughness is many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial. Also, most importantly, it is combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in. It's a state of mind-you could call it character in action.

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

We're none of us quite so sure of our place in the world that we can't be rocked off our feet by bad times. It's the getting back up again that counts. Not that you fall, but getting back up again counts for more in the long run.

When discouragement comes, don't stop. Dig deep and fight it through!

When your own mind tells you to quit, you must ignore your negative thoughts and press on.

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situation at hand. ...Then remind yourself that past and present have no power over you. Only the present.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.

Most of the time you need something to fight against. If something is bothering me, then the only way to get past it is to work through it.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The reason for problems is to overcome them. Why, that’s the very nature of man, I thought, to press past limits, to prove his freedom. It isn’t the challenge that faces us, that determines who we are and what we are becoming, but the way we meet the challenge, whether we toss a match at the wreck or work our way through it, step by step, to freedom.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

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.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.