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

Comaneci

‎"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

"There is no dependence that can be sure but a dependence upon one's self."

- John Gay

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future."

- Emma Goldman

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

- Vince Lombardi

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."

- Ovid

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"I am here for a purpose..."

"...and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink into a grain of sand.  Henceforth, I will apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy."

- Og Mandino

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

- Harper Lee as Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation"

- Oscar Wilde

"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past."

- James Joyce as Stephan Dedalus

Ulysses (1922)