Setbacks are part of life and surely each of one of us has somewhat experience, in differing degrees, that "bitter life moments" and "the dark valleys". It could be through our financial losses, sickness, death of loved-ones, career uncertainties, business failures, broken relationships.
Even if you are someone who is intentionally and passionately pursuing your dreams and goals, there will come a time when your knees will shake in fear and doubt. Fear in not knowing what the future holds for you in the midst of setbacks or the feeling of helplessness.
However, we should remember that struggles and failures are part of the breakthroughs in our lives and what separates the champions from losers is on how we are going to face the challenges as they come.
Be inspired by these words from people who have encountered trials, failure, doubt but choose to face up to the challenges in their lives.
1. “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.” - Soren Kierkegaard
2. “The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.”- R. G. Ingersoll
3. “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” - Theodore Roosevelt
4. “Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "What you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." – Goethe
6. “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
7. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”- Nelson Mandela
8. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”- Walt Disney
9. “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”-Muhammad Ali
10. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”- E. E. Cummings
11. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”- Winston Churchill
12. “Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”- Rabindranath Tagore
13. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”- T. S. Eliot
