People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall meet with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

-- Jack Ma

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

Never think you have exhausted every option. Stand at the cliff's edge, and a fresh wind will surely blow.

-- Kōnosuke Matsushita

Ups and downs in life are very important to keep us going, because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive.

-- Ratan Tata

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity, or you can pick yourself up and say, 'Listen, I have to be responsible for myself.'

-- Howard Schultz