Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain

The journey is the reward.
~ Chinese Proverb

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. *
~John Ruskin

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
~William James

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
~George P. Burnham

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.
~Mary Kay Ash

Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
~Author unknown

ADVERSITY

Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.
~Theodore N. Vail

The man of character finds an especial attractiveness in difficulty since it is only by coming to grips with difficulty that he can realize his potentialities.
~Charles de Gaulle

Our most difficult experiences become the crucibles that forge our character and develop the internal powers, the freedom to handle difficult circumstances in the future and to inspire others to do so as well. *
~Stephen Covey

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'
~Ann Landers

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
~Ralph Marston

No matter how desperate the predicament is, I'm always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.
~Charlie Chaplin

When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: what a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.
~Eileen Caddy

If I can endure for this minute whatever is happening to me
No matter how heavy my heart is or how dark the moment might be...
If I can but keep on believing what I know in my heart to be true,
That darkness will fade with morning and that this will pass away, too...
Then nothing can ever disturb me or fill me with uncertain fear,
For as sure as night brings dawning, my morning is bound to appear...
~Unknown

Life has a self-correcting mechanism -- things that we once thought were terrible have a way of becoming stepping stones for new discoveries.
~Raymond Soh

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. *
~Will Rogers

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

ANGER

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
~Laurence J. Peter

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
~Confucius

The best remedy for anger is delay.
~Brigham Young

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. *
~Chinese proverb

ATTITUDE

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let if consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. *
~Jean Church

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.
~Montaigne

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.**
~Unknown

Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
~Violeta Parra

Whoever you are, there is some younger person who thinks you are perfect. There is some work that will never be done if you don't do it. There is someone who would miss you if you were gone. There is a place that you alone can fill.
~Jacob M. Braude

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. *
~Alexander Graham Bell