If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
It's always too early to quit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
As I grew up, I was continually to suffer hardships in different realms of life - in my family, in my relationship to Japanese society and in my way of living at large in the latter half of the twentieth century.