Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Pick your one overwhelming desire. It’s okay to suffer over that one.
Naval Ravikant
When we look at our lives as a whole, our current difficulty is like a cloud. Although large, it will soon pass.
Haemin Sunim
The first step to overcoming failure is to fully admit you have failed. Admitting it will put your mind at ease and help you to see what you ought to do next.
Haemin Sunim
Remember: everything hard will be painful, but just because there is pain doesn’t mean you have to suffer.
Justin Kan
If you haven’t started, then taking action is more important than finding the best strategy. If you’re already taking action, then ensuring you’re working on the right thing is more important than working harder. Your effort sets your floor. Your strategy sets your ceiling.
James Clear
The only way that you’re ever going to get to the other side of this journey is by suffering. You have to suffer in order to grow. Some people get it, some people don’t.
David Goggins
Get a move on…Don’t worry whether anyone will give you credit for it…Be satisfied with even the smallest progress, and treat the outcome of it all as unimportant.
Marcus Aurelius
It’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift your head, and move on.
Haruki Murakami
Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
Fred Rogers
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place.
Paulo Coelho
It is totally unproductive to think the world has been unfair to you. Every tough stretch is an opportunity.
Charlie Munger
I will keep preaching this to myself and others: there are no problems, only projects.
David Allen
Don’t worry about all of the steps.
Begin. Bob Goff
Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
Thomas Merton
You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.
Marian Wright Edelman
Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
Mignon McLaughlin
Relax. One bad chapter does not mean it’s the end of the book.
Paulo Coelho
You’re going to be happy, said life, but first I’ll make you strong.
Paulo Coelho
Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.
Lao Tzu
You can make a difference, and you can make it now. You can make a difference, in your own life, in your family, your community, your world.
Ralph Marston
But if a thing is humanly possible, consider it to be within your reach.
Marcus Aurelius
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
Trying and struggling looks like incompetence right up until the moment it looks like success.
Shane Parrish
Soon, when all is well, you’re going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.
Brittany Burgunder
I’m proud of you. I hope that you are proud of you too.
Fred Rogers
You’re tired and scared. Happens to everyone, okay? Just don’t let your feet stop.
Haruki Murakami