Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

- Publilius Syrus -

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

- Confucius -

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

- Ovid -

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

- Louisa May Alcott -

Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

- Leonardo da Vinci -

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; in the real world all rests on perseverance.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

- Kahlil Gibran -

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

- Seneca -

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

- Epictetus -

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

- Henry Ford -

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt -

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

- Marcus Aurelius -

You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

- Marcus Aurelius -

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight.

- Marcus Aurelius -

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

- Epictetus -

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.

- Sun Tzu -

A friend is known in times of trouble.

- Croatian Proverb -

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

- Benjamin Franklin -

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

- William James -

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

- Rabindranath Tagore -