Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Everybody has down times and stuff that they have to work through. I worked through that stuff because I've always wanted to be playing soccer.

The world loves to tell you how difficult things are, and the world's not exaggerating. But difficult doesn't mean impossible, and out of the bajillions of things in this universe that you can't control, what you can control is how hard you try, and if or when to pack it in.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile. Many will grow tired on the way. Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.

To the stars through thorns.

It's never about the chemo; it's never about the cancer. It's all about what you're willing to put in to overcome whatever the obstacle is.

I've stood the test of time, weathered a lot of storms and hurdled a lot of obstacles.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

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

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Quests always have their ups and downs,' rumbled the giant. 'The point is never to give up, even if you're falling off a cliff. You never know what might happen on the way to the bottom.

Braving obstacles and hardships is nobler than retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that hovers around the lamp until it dies is more admirable than the mole that lives in a dark tunnel.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

Every thing in this world exist to wear you down

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

The trouble with most of us is that we stop trying in trying times.

It's easy to just give everything up, but it takes a lot of strength and a lot of willpower to just make yourself stay on it and get up and do something different. And I had to do that.

There are times when you run a marathon and you wonder, Why am I doing this? But you take a drink of water, and around the next bend, you get your wind back, remember the finish line, and keep going.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.

I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.

Whenever there is a challenge, there is also an opportunity to face it, to demonstrate and develop our will and determination.