Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
- Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

I will persist until I succeed. The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal…Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult…So long as there is breath in me, that long will I persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles of success; if I persist long enough I will win."

Pain is temporary, pride is forever - Unknown

A distraction is only a distraction if you pay attention to it.

Beginning is easy; continuing is hard.

The secret to getting ahead is getting started.

Extraordinary abilities can only come from extra ordinary efforts

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is the little extra

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!

Can't is something capable people say to excuse themselves from trying.

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

It's a funny thing, the more I practice, the luckier I get. - Arnold Palmer

Luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. - Pythagoras

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. - Harry Emerson Fosdick

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. - Martin Luther King, Jr., Nobel Laureate

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. - Donald Trump, Entrepreneur