“He’s a beautiful person. He always tells me: ‘We’ve got to find a way to win by losing.’ In the eyes of society, we’ve lost already. Everyone in here is a loser. We can either be angry about it, or we can keep trying to grow.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com
“I’m smart enough to get around anything. So there’s never been anything to stop me but myself.”— Anonymous, humansofnewyork.com
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Success isn’t a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.”— Arnold Glasgow, brainyquote.com
“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”— James A. Michener, brainyquote.com
“Success is like wrestling with a gorilla. You don’t quit when you’re tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired.”— Robert Strauss, goodreads.com
“Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.”— Carlos Castaneda, thinkexist.com