Resilience

Obstacles cannot crush me, every obstacle yields to stern resolve - Leonardo da Vinci

obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there - Zig Ziglar

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal - Hannah More

Now is not the time to think of what you do not have; think of what you can do with what there is - Ernest Hemingway

No path of flowers leads to glory - Jean de La Fontaine (1621-95)

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be. - Clementine Paddleford

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never. In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honour and good sense - Winston Churchill

My mind was so at odds with itself that I did nothing, no work, no gardening, nothing at all for months on end, but even then to take my best spade from the wall and just swing that balanced purposefulness from a clenched hand was enough to raise hopes, enough to mend - Monty Don http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books…

Mean to don't pick no cotton - Anon.

Many of life's failures are men who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up - Thomas A. Edison