"Be patient and calm — for no one can catch fish in anger." — Herbert Hoover, 20th-century American public servant, U.S. president

“Fall seven times. Stand up eight.” — Japanese proverb

"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down." — Mary Pickford, 20th-century American actress

"The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it." — Jean Baptiste Molière, 17th-century French dramatist

"What does not destroy makes me stronger." — Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th-century German philosopher

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them — every day begin the task anew." — Saint Francis de Sales

"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." — Oliver Goldsmith, 18th-century English novelist

"Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty." — John Ruskin, 19th-century British critic and author

“People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.” — Anonymous

“One is defeated only when one accepts defeat.” — Marshall Foch, 19th/20th century French general

“It is not falling into the water, but lying in it, that drowns.” —  Anonymous