“The way to overcome negative thoughts and destructive emotions is to develop opposing, positive emotions that are stronger and more powerful.”

- Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama)

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

- Voltaire

"An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox."

- Lao Tzu

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."

- Robert H. Goddard

“Freedom lies in being bold.”

- Robert Frost

“Courage takes many forms..."

"There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”

- Howard Cosell

“My brain is the key that sets my mind free.”

- Harry Houdini

"I take nothing for granted. I now have only good days, or great days."

-  Lance Armstrong

"Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it."

- Bill Cosby

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

- Ovid

"Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine."

- Elvis Presley

"Ideas are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny."

- Carl Schurz

“We keep it coming. We never give up. The way we play is to always play hard.”

- Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones, Jr.

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Become who you are."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working."

- Pablo Picasso

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

- Wayne Dyer

"Stumbling is not falling."

- Malcolm X

"To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember."

- Anne Sullivan Macy

“If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good”

- Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

"At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes."

- Edward Morgan (E. M.) Forster