It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. — Babe Ruth

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going. — Beverly Sills

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. — Thomas A. Edison

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. — George S. Patton

Sometimes there’s not a better way. Sometimes there’s only the hard way. — Mary E. Pearson

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. — Lord Chesterfield

Make a pact with yourself today to not be defined by your past. Sometimes the greatest thing to come out of all your hard work isn’t what you get for it, but what you become for it. Shake things up today! Be you... Be free.. .Share.” — Steve Maraboli

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. — Thomas Jefferson

Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better. — Jim Rohn