Honore de Balzac Quotes

You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated.

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Work hard for what you want because it won't come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.

I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

When life knocks you down, keep getting up.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

You gotta have faith. You gotta keep your head up.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

Life is tough, but I'm tougher.

Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it.

I’m grateful I had the strength to fight. It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come, especially when you are flat on your back and don’t know if you’re going to see tomorrow. I’m no Pollyanna, but I believe optimism is a choice — a muscle that gets stronger with use. Right foot, left foot…just keep moving.

If failure has the strength to turn your life into bitterness itself, then patience has the strength to turn your life into the sweetest joy. Do not surrender to fate after a single failure. Failure, at most, precedes success.

All happiness depends on courage and work.

I hope that people take away hope, maybe not in an obvious sense, but in the form of hearing somebody who's genuinely fighting to stay above water. And in that fight, there's hope. In that fight, maybe there's positivity.

I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it.

You have to have hope. Otherwise, I don't think you could handle it. Of course, you have to have both luck and pluck to make it.