“People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing...


- T H A T ' S     W H Y     W E        R E C O M M E N D     I T     D A I L Y ! "     -Zig Ziglar


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"Listen to your body. Your mind. Your passions.  They are whispering how grateful they are to be yours.  And only yours..."

"There are fixed points throughout time where things must stay exactly the way they are. This is not one of them. This is an opportunity! Whatever happens here will create its own timeline, its own reality, a temporal tipping point. The future revolves around you, here, now, so do good!"

"There can be no great accomplishment without risk."

"We live in a world we ourselves create."

“The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.”

“It matters not what a person is born, but who they choose to be.”

“Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.”

“Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.”

"Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself."

"There is only one perfect road and that road is ahead of you, always ahead of you."

“I want you to start a crusade in your life - to dare to be your best.”

“There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action..."

"...and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”

"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world...

...to those who are its worst.  In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.  Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.  Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.  Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach.  Check your road and the nature of your battle.  The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours."