When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

— Mark Twain

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those [qualities] because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” — Aristotle