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

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

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

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

Fire tests gold; adversity tests strong people.

-- Seneca

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

-- Jack Ma

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

-- Kōnosuke Matsushita