“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.”

- Jesse Owens

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

"Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex."

- Norman Vincent Peale

‎"Take life as you find it, but don't leave it so."

- Unknown

"You are either alive and proud or you are dead..."

-Stephen Biko

‎"Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."

- Indira Gandhi

‎"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

-Carl Jung

"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

 -Eric Hoffer

"Success is the sweetest revenge."

-Vanessa Williams 

‎"I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant."

-Oscar De La Renta

You don't get it by: Staring, Wishing, Drooling or Hoping.  

You don't get it easy.  

You get it by getting off your ass, working for it every second of every day for the rest of your life.

“I don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet.”

 - Nadia Comăneci

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‎"My life is my message."

- Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

- Mary Oliver

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don’t change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

- Woody Guthrie

‎"Clear your mind of can’t."

- Samuel Johnson

"You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might."

- Henry David Thoreau

‎"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."

- E.B. White

"Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine."

- Nikola Tesla

One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world."

- Ann Radcliffe

"Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim."

- John D. Rockefeller

“Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you”

- Henry J. Kaiser

"It's the pausing and the stopping, perhaps going backward and losing some time, not being able to do everything we're supposed to do, that serves the soul. That's the enchantment that feeds the soul."

- Thomas Moore

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt