“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful. ”
- Mark Victor Hansen

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. ”
- Steve Jobs

“Success is not the key to happiness.  Happiness is the key to success.  If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.”
- Herman Cain

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. ”
- Lao Tzu

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ”
- John Quincy Adams

"For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. ”
- Vincent van Gogh

“Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ”
- Pamela Vaull Starr

“I shut my eyes in order to see. ”
- Paul Gauguin

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ”
- Confucius

“It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ”
- Walt Disney

“I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything! ”
- Sasha Azevedo, American actress, athlete and model who overcame epilepsy

“I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own power, it's an opportunity to build on our faith, inner strength, and courage. I've learned that how we face challenges plays a big role in the outcome of them.”
- Sasha Azevedo
 
“When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you. Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. The Lesson: If you can't accept yourself, then certainly no one else will.”
- Sasha Azevedo

“To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams, to have goals in life and a drive to succeed, and to surround yourself with the things and the people that make you happy - this is success!”
- Sasha Azevedo

“I love inspiring people, and if I can make a difference in one person's life, then that's success for me!”
- Sasha Azevedo

“To dance is to be in tune with the steps of life.”
- Sasha Azevedo

“When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.”
- Sasha Azevedo

"Life is a gift. Never take it for granted." - Sasha Azevedo

"I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory!" - Sasha Azevedo

"Too many people go through life waiting for things to happen instead of making them happen!" - Sasha Azevedo

"The world is not interested in what we do for a living. What they are interested in is what we have to offer freely - hope, strength, love and the power to make a difference!" - Sasha Azevedo

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character. ”
- Albert Einstein

"Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. ” - unknown

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.' ”
-Mary Anne Radmacher

"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. ”
- Dr. Seuss

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ”
- Dr. Seuss

“Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose. ”
- Tom Krause

“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them. ”
- Tom Krause

“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much. ”
- Tom Krause

“When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.”
- Mark Victor Hansen

“In imagination, there's no limitation.”
- Mark Victor Hansen

“A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.”
-Richard Le Gallienne

“A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. ”
- John Maxwell

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be. ”
- Karen Ravn

“Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life.  You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you. ” - unknown

“Try and fail, but don't fail to try. ”
- Stephen Kaggwa

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race ”
- Calvin Coolidge

"If you can't fly, then run.
If you can't run, then walk.
If you can't walk, then crawl.
But whatever you do, keep moving."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Security is mostly a superstition; it does not exist in nature. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep."
- Robert Frost

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go."
- T.S. Eliot

"Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards."
- Greg Louganis

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that
gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection."
- Thomas Paine

"Self-conquest is the greatest of victories."
- Plato

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it.
Action has magic, grace and power in it."
- Goethe

"The longest hill must end in a valley."
- Henry C. Beeching

"The thrill is not just winning, but the courage to join the race."
- Helena Johnson, in memory of Richard Miller, C.R.O.C. Adventure and Racing Team

"There is another type of strength. It is being able to extend your energy for a very long distance."
- David LaPierre

"Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead."
- Louisa May Alcott

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
- Socrates

"Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit has a limited imagination."
- Unknown

"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments while others stay awake and do them."
- Unknown

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
- Unknown

"To achieve all that is possible, we must attempt the impossible - to be as much as we can, we must dream of being more."
- Unknown

"Great spirits often encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds."
- Albert Einstein

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
- Bagehot

"I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path and I will leave a trail."
- Muriel Strode

"You move from doing things to show other people you could, to where you do things to look into yourself, into your soul, and see who you are and what you're all about."
- Scott Weber

"There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win."
- Elie Wiesel

"A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for?"
- Robert Browning

"Do the thing and have the power."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we will find the way."
- Abraham Lincoln

"The only way to be who you want to be is by being what you haven't yet been."
- Sally Edwards

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced"
- Kierkegard

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The will to do, the soul to dare."
- Sir Walter Scott

"Nothing is more certain than the defeat of a man who gives up."
- George Sheehan

"Sweetness and release can only taste the way they do after one deserves them."
- Shapiro

"Success rests in having the courage and endurance, and above all, the will to become the person you are. . . "
- George Sheehan

"Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning inAfrica, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve.
It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running."
- Unknown

"There is no future if we only repeat the past."
- Unknown

"The race isn't always to the swiftest, but to those who keep on running."
- Unknown

"To strive, to seek, and not to yield."
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Action cures fear."
- Unknown

"Vincit qui patitur: he conquers, who endures."
- Coach Percy Cerutty

"The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well."
- Pierre de Courbertin, founder of the modern pre-commercial Olympic movement

"It is not the critic who counts,
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
Or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena;
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood;
Who strives valiantly,
Who errs and comes short again and again;
Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
And spends himself in a worthy cause;
Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement;
And who at the worst, at least fails while daring greatly,
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Teddy Roosevelt

"A body in motion tends to stay in motion, a body at rest tends to stay at rest."
- Sir Isaac Newton

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