Success is never final and failure is never fatal. its courage that counts. John Wooden

Talk to people you have never talked to before, and actually listen. Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if  you don’t believe in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.

It is easy to be negative about past mistakes and unhappiness. But it is much more healing to look at ourselves and our past in the light of experience, acceptance, and growth.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. Epicurus

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. Mary Dunbar

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. Victoria Lincoln

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle

You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure. Orison Swett Marden

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

Neither fire, nor moisture, nor wind can destroy the blessing of a good deed, and it will reform the world. Buddha