“You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.”— Arthur Ashe, keepinspiring.me
“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.”— Herb Brooks, keepinspiring.me
“There may be people that have more talent than you, but theres no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.”— Derek Jeter, keepinspiring.me
“Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”— Ross Perot, keepinspiring.me
“When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.”— Winston Churchill, preachingtoday.com
“Maybe my fairy tale has a different ending than I dreamed it would. But that’s OK.”— Kim Kardashian, celebuzz.com
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”— Martin Luther King Jr., amazon.com
“Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.”— Bobby Flay, amazon.com
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance, when you're perfectly free.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”— Anaïs Nin, facebook.com
“Life isn't about having, it's about being. You could surround yourself with all that money can buy, and you'd still be as miserable as a human can be. I know people with perfect bodies who don't have half the happiness I've found. On my journeys I've seen more joy in the slums of Mumbai and the orph…”— Nick Vujicik, goodreads.com
“Being happy is a very personal thing—and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”— Esther And Jerry Hicks, amazon.com
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“So, many years later there were many who still complained and questioned, ‘Why must you pick up Christians and Hindus in your ambulance?’ And I was still saying, ‘Because the ambulance is more Muslim than you’.”— Abdul Sattar Edhi, facebook.com
“And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com