Resilience

Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishesÿ- Chinese Proverb

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it - Margaret Thatcher

You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective ... if you want it, if you will do it, if you will work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time -

When you're going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn - Harriet Beecher Stowe

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil, while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments -Thomas Jefferson

When I fell I did not know that it was my life's peak experience - Anita Grede

We shall live to fight again, and to strike another blow - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, and in the streets, we shall fight in the halls. We shall never surrender - Sir Winston Churchill