"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

"The point is, Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it. "
— Markus Zusak (The Book Thief)

"Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields."
— Winston S. Churchill (Memoirs of the Second World War)

"But then he thought about his Dad, who soon he'd have to face.
"Get up." an echo sounded low. "Get up and take your place. You were not meant for failure here, get up and win the race."
With borrowed will, "Get up," it said, "You haven't lost at all. For winning is no more than this - to rise each time you fall.""
— The Standard of Performance No. 32

"Ilsa Hermann had decided to make suffering her triumph. When it refused to let go of her, she succumbed to it. She embraced it."
— Mark Zusak