Keep on Keeping On!

Quotes
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life's circumstances to push them down and hold them under."
-Charles R. Swindoll

“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It's the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun."
Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all you were intended to be." Charlie "Tremendous" Jones

"All the wonders you seek are within yourself." Sir Thomas Brown

"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces
himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he
certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining?
That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter either. Then
Willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek, Czech Olympic great.


"I think I can, I think I can. . . . " The Little Engine That Could

"It is not the size of the dog in the fight, it is the size of the fight in the dog!"
"The person who is not hungry says that the coconut has a hard shell."
-- African Tribal Saying

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."
-Japanese Proverb

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
-Abraham Lincoln

"Leap and the net will appear."
Julia Cameron

" Not At Risk But Of Promise
“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
Michael Jordan

"Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow" Dan Rather

Hold fast your dreams!
Within your heart
Keep one, still, secret spot
Where dreams may go,
And sheltered so
May thrive and grow-
Where doubt and fear are not.
Lynn Driscoll

We shall not flag of fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Sir Winston Churchill....June 4, 1940

I like the sense of humor that applies to any type of person.
Debbie Lewis

Know you what it is to be a child?...
It is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy tale godmother in its own soul.
Francis Thompson

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit." Aristotle

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not... nothing is more common than unsuccessful people will talent.
Genius will not... unrewarded genius is almost legendary.
Education will not.... the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
President Calvin Coolidge


"The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don’t get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get."
-Terence


"Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference."
-Reinhold Niebuhr


"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius


Stop mixing mortar.
Let someone move you beyond breath.
Find _expression for the fragility in
Life's delicate balance.
Remember the strength of spider webs,
Beehives, and cocoons.
Rethink the substance of mortar.
Lightly sculpted walls have sustained
Substantial mansions.
What butterfly ever emerged from
A brick wall?
-by Kathryn Anderson from SPIRITUS-Poetic Thoughts to Hasten the Cure


The movement you need is on your shoulders.”
Hey Jude by John Lennon and Paul McCartney


"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it." -Edith Wharton

“Resilient children tend to have parents who are concerned with their children's education, who participate in that education, who direct their children everyday task, and who are aware of their children interests and goals. Another important characteristic of resilient children is having at least one significant adult in their lives.”
Linda F. Winfield


"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson


“We will survive again in America. The more you learn, the more you can achieve your life vision”.
-Samuel Kuek, Sudanese refugee

"A Sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected and smile through the unbearable." Moshe Waldoks

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

... for children, protective factors (or assets)
"are like the self-righting tendencies of a heavy keel on a boat.
Not matter what the seas, calm or stormy, the boat keeps its
balance because of its keel."
Excerpt from "this child of mine" - A Therapist's Journey
Martha Wakenshaw

One who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
Source Unknown

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." Malcom Stevenson Forbes



"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt


"Fall seven times. Stand up eight." -- Japanese proverb


"Problems are not stop signs, they're guidelines." -- Robert Schuler.


I've learned that you are only a failure if you quit. Unknown age 12


"Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be seen from the top of the mountain. So are many things learned in adversity, which the prosperous man dreams not of." (anonymous)

"I haven't failed. I've identified 10,000 ways this doesn’t work." Thomas Edison

The bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you refuse to take the
turn.

Those who can truly be accounted brave are those who best know the meaning of what is sweet in life and what is terrible, and then go out, undeterred, to meet what is to come." -Pericles

“I will die on my feet before I live on my knees.” - Emiliano Zapata

"The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".
Richard Carlson, PH. D, from the book "Don't Sweat the
Small Stuff..."

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. "
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we're learning in our schools is not the wisdom of life. We're learning technologies, we're getting information. There has to be a training to help you open your ears so that you can begin to hear metaphorically instead of concretely. It's been said said that poetry consists of letting the word be heard beyond words and Goethe says, 'All things are metaphors'. Everything that's transitory is but a metaphorical reference. That's what we all are"
Joseph Campbell

"Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product."
Eleanor Rossevelt

"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men."
Ignazio Silone

"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
John F. Kennedy

"Whenever you are asked if you can do ajob, tell 'em "Certainly I can!" and get busy and find out how to do it."
Theordore Rossevelt

If in normal conditions it is skill, which counts, in such extreme situations, it is the spirit, which saves." Walter Bonatti.

"Hours slide by like minutes. The accumulated clutter of day-to-day existence the lapses of conscience, the unpaid bills, the bungled opportunities, the dust under the couch, the inescapable prison of your genes all of it is temporarily forgotten, crowded from your thoughts by an overpowering clarity of purpose by the seriousness of the task at hand." Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" Derek Bok

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present, and dream about the future. I'm a firm believer in learning from adversity. Often the worst of times can turn to your advantage - my life is a study of that." -Donald Trump

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Humor prevents one from becoming a tragic figure even though he / she is involved in tragic events.
E. T. Eberhart

If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor. Jennifer Jones

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritation and resentments slip away, and a sunny spirit takes their place. Mark Twain

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
Helen Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller

"In the depths of winter, I discovered in me an invincible summer"
Albert Camus 1881-1973

We just have to keep chipping away at convention. We will get there
-Liz Masakayan, volleyball

Every day I struggle with my femininity. Boxing is such a boy's club - I'm constanly on guard. It's taken a lot of work, but I finally feel that what makes me a woman is what gives me power.
-Lucia Rijker, boxer

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us!” Ralph Waldo Emerson


"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant." -Horace

Take hand and part with laughter;
Touch lips and part with tears;
Once more and no more after,
Whatever comes with years. Algernone Charles Swinburne 1837-1909




You Mustn't Quit
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must---but never quit.

Life is queer, with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won if he'd stuck it out;
Stick to your task, though the pace seems slow---
You may succeed with one more blow.

Success is failure turned inside out---
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt---
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit---
It's when things seem worst that YOU MUSTN'T QUIT. (Anonymous)

"Create a new vision of schooling, one in which policies, school structures,
programs, and practices are designed to protect, nourish, and support student
development rather than categorize, inhibit, and punish the students who do not
fit the mold". Linda F. Winfield in "Developing Resilience in Urban Youth"

"Schools that 'really trust" their students--schools that value, respect, and know their students--are schools that foster resiliency for their students. Such schools are full of adults who believe that all students are capable of learning the habits of mind to use their minds and hearts well." Educational Research Service. Fostering Resilient Children. April 1999. V. 26, no. 8. http://www.ers.org/ERSBulletins/0499g.htm
"He's a million rubber bands in his resilience." Alan K. r, US Senator

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority! ~ William Howard Taft

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should. ~ Jean de La Bruyere

…we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. ~ Helen Keller

Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You exhibit what can be called 'true grit' in all that you do." Ronald Reagan