Perseverance

Use your fear. Harness it. Let them underestimate you. In the end, don't vanquish your critics — prove them wrong.

I learned not to be disillusioned by failure, not to be burdened by perfection, and not to be intimidated by greatness.

If you want to cross the river of life, you're gonna get wet. And that's not a bug — that's a feature.

Feel whatever you feel, all that you feel, and then keep going.

You are not your circumstance. Where you start out in life doesn't have to determine where you'll end up or just how far you can go. Only you can determine your distance.

The work that is called for, that we must do, has no expiration date. It is the construction of our more perfect union, and that job will never, ever be completed.

Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it. And as long as we are fortunate enough to be breathing, we will breathe in, breathe through, breathe deep, breathe out.

Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth. The people who wanted it the least were the ones I wanted to date and be friends with in high school. The people who want it the most are the people I now hire to work for my company.

Through surf and storm, howling gale, high shall your purpose be.

Amazing things happen when you do hard things. You grow, you become closer to others who share the experience, you become stronger as a person.

People like you who are willing to put in deep, concentrated, single-minded effort are creating the pathways that will lead us out of this crisis.

Only love can give you the power to take on these kinds of odds.