1. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”—Joshua J. Marine
2. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”—Les Brown
3. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”—Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”—Confucius
5. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”—Franklin D. Roosevelt
6. “To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”—Gail Sheehy, Author
7. “When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”—Joseph Kennedy
8. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”—Maya Angelou
9. “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” —Randy Pausch
10. Life may be hard, but resilient people are harder.
11. Mirror is your best friend, because when you cry, it never laughs.
12. But remember that real situations reveal fake friends.
