Resilience

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

The first five minutes of the game does not decide the outcome. It never does.

The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something, because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

The important test is whether you can get back up after being knocked down and risk failure again.

Failure is merely a dress rehearsal for future success. The strength of your character comes not from how you react to your successes, but from how you react to your failures.

Never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer. They have incredible power. It's as if I've been carried on the shoulders of an entire army. And they had made me weightless.

There is no such thing as failure. What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.

Sometimes the circumstances at hand force us to be braver than we actually are, and so we knock on doors and ask for assistance.

Fear is the most corrosive force in human life. It deforms us and crushes the best in us.