“Par is whatever I say it is. I've got one hole that's a par 23 and yesterday I damn near birdied the sucker.”

- Willie Nelson

"It's more fun to say YES than no...Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Life is so much more fun if you GET OUT THERE and VENTURE!"

- Sir Richard Branson

“Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.”

- Ella Fitzgerald

“Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.”

- Edwin Markham

"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering."

- Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

"No milestone is too small to celebrate."

- Adrianne Haslet-Davis

“The only cure for grief is action.”

- George Henry Lewes

"It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live."

- Anatole France

"I'm all in with this training."

- Shalane Flanagan

“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.”

- Anne Sullivan Macy

“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

- Dean Acheson

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

- Anne Lamott

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

- Mary Pickford

“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.”

- Nicholas Murray Butler

“One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king..."

- Abraham Maslow