Resilience

We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they begin - Anon.

We conquer by continuing -

Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable - B.C. Forbes

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying - Jean Anouilh (1910-87), French playwright

Those who have been emotionally skinned, who are in exposed agony, have a gift. They break down the prison of prestige - Tobias Jones, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2775-2528336,00.html

There is no born writer. Shakespeare was once a child who could not write. Do not be afraid of your "bad style". Persevere and with time you willacquire craftsmanship like any artist or artisan. Do not see the bad product of today but the beauty of tomorrow's. Never give up - Robert Muller http://goodmorning-world.blogspot.com/2010/06/gmw-1976-testimony-to-hop…

Then comes the conflict of our lesser man with our greater man, of our wishes with our will, of the desire for things affecting our sense with the purpose that is within our heart. Then we begin to distinguish between what we immediately desire and what is good. For good is that which is desirable for our greater self. Thus, the sense of goodness comes out of a truer view of our life, which is connected view of the wholeness of the field of life, and which takes into account not only what is present before us but what is not, and perhaps never humanly can be - Rabindranath Tagore, in Sadhana

The reason some people don't recognise opportunity is because it often comes disguised as hard work - Anon

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it (Chinese proverb)