"Life is a long lesson in humility."
~ James M. Barrie

"Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best."
~ Theodore Rubin

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
~ Malcolm X

"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable."
~ Wendy Wasserstein

"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice." ~ Charles Bukowski

"People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value." ~ Stephen R. Covey

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome." ~ Michael Jordan

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms."
~ Samuel Johnson

"Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different." ~ Michael Porter

"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." ~ David Frost

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."
~ Confucius

"If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim." ~ H. Jackson Brown

"Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow."
~ Reed Markham

"There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it."
~ Camilo Cela

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."
~ Denis Waitley

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." ~ Anais Nin

"The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." ~ Tony Robbins