“I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.”— Madeleine Albright, amazon.com
“It’s sometimes physically hard. But then the lights go down, you hear the crowd and you’re all better. You feel like, ‘OK, let’s do it.’”— Tom Petty, latimes.com
“Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no na…”— Henry James, amazon.com
“Defeat is also a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”— Bruce Lee, amazon.com
“You’ve got to give yourself permission to not have the answers, to survive things going amiss, to exert less energy into bullshit, and trust you’ll be okay. This doesn’t mean become stagnant or coast in mediocrity, but find solace in relinquishing the idea of control. Simply do your best, and vow to…”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com
“When the wind of change blows, some build walls, while others build windmills.”— Chinese Proverb, mychinesenow.com
“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”— Brandon Sanderson, amazon.com
“I suit up every night. Banged up, hurt, whatever. 100%, 30%. It ain't no numbers, it's my heart and you can't measure that.”— Kevin Garnett, youtu.be
“Never stop. Never stop fighting. Never stop dreaming. And don’t be afraid of wearing your heart on your sleeve …For myself, for a long time… maybe I felt inauthentic or something, I felt like my voice wasn’t worth hearing, and I think everyone’s voice is worth hearing. So if you’ve got something to…”— Tom Hiddleston, youtube.com
“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com
“I could paint for a hundred years, a thousand years without stopping, if it seemed to me I knew nothing.”— Paul Cezanne, amazon.com
“I’ve decided to make myself strong. As far as I can tell, that’s all I can do.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com