“Pain is a merciful thing – if it lasts without interruption, it dulls itself.”

- Emil Zatopek

"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile."

- Bertrand Russell

“Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“Everyone who's achieved success in a great venture solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves, and they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.”

- W. Clement Stone

"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality...true art lies in a reality that is felt."

- Odilon Redon

"Life, even when lived long and well, seems too short at the end. If it's important, DO IT NOW!"

- Thomas Grinovich

"In every moment there's the possibility of a better future..."

- Governor David Nix of Tomorrowland

"You must always see yourself as a great advancing soul...If you desire to advance and you are not doing so, remember that it can be only because your thought is better your practice."

- Wallace Wattles

“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

- Colin Powell

“There comes a time in each life, like a point of fulcrum. At that time, you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.”

- John Fowles

“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

- Erich Fromm

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

- Hans Hofmann

“Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”

- Hugh Walpole

“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

- William Cobbett

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”

- Robert Orben

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

- Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

- James Allen

“Do the things you believe in, in the name of love, and know that you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.”

- Carole King

“Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”

- John Ruskin

“My motto was always to keep running. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly..., the only thing to do was keep running.”

- Hank Aaron

“It takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

- Lewis Carroll

"Excess on occasion can be exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

- W. Somerset Maugham

“Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.”

- Harold S. Geneen

"It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time."

 - Margery Williams

The Velveteen Rabbit

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."

- David Starr Jordan