"Cowards die many times before their actual deaths." - Julius Caesar

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." - Julius Caesar

"Do not be afraid to suffer. Do not be afraid to be overthrown. It is being cast down and not destroyed; it is being shaken to pieces, and the pieces torn to shreds, that men become men of might." - Henry Ward Beecher

"True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done." - John Wayne

"We don't get to decide what happens to us, but we do get to decide how we will respond." - JRR Tolkien

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss and failure into success." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway