Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

Helen keller

All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.

mitch albom

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into the flames of achievement.

golda meir

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 isaac rubin

I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and try to ignore the rest.

venus williams

The successful warrior is the average man, but with laser-like focus.

bruce lee

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.

dolly parton

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down “happy.” They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

john lennon

If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.

Erica jong

Build your own dreams, or somebody else will pay you to build theirs.

Farrah Grey