Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

Life is not for the faint of heart.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

The time when there is no one there to feel sorry for you or to cheer for you is when a player is made.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

He who voluntarily confronts tremendous odds must have very great internal resources to draw upon

That is always what I've had to do in life: to show I am capable of surviving.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

The only thing I know how to do is survive.

I've had to be tough my whole life.

I think if you're not strong, in life or in football, not every day is going to be going up and seeing the sunshine.

My parents taught me not to complain, to always go forward. They taught me to always finish what I had on my plate. It seems ridiculous but these are little things that in the end make you stronger.

Akhmad is strength!

Discipline is something we despise for the moment.... We all look for a place to run, an excuse with which to stall. No one enjoys it. Yet those of us who have endured it know that the fruit it produces and the pain from which it ultimately spares us makes it worth the agony.

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

You have to go through tough experiences and go through some battles, in order to be stronger.

I wanted to finish on a stronger note. Fighting through that routine, you know what I was like, 'I'm just fighting through.'

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Under pressure, would I fold and disappear, or would I show everyone that when bad things happen, you fight?

Strength and struggle travel together.

It's a hard life sometimes and the biggest temptation is to let how hard it is be an excuse to weaken

Dispose thyself to patience rather than to comfort, and to the bearing of the cross rather than to gladness.

They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.