“I’m a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I’ll rise and fight again.”— John Dryden, theotherpages.org
“I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.”— Morgan Freeman, wealthygorilla.com
“You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.”— Tom Hiddleston, goodreads.com
“Until the lion learns how to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”— African Proverb, afriprov.org
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”— Joshua Graham, amazon.com
“At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“The difference between vision and a goal is the finish line. A goal is 26.2 miles. You can simply count the metrics and know when you've completed your goal. A vision is having a crystal clear sense of what the finish line looks like, but no idea of how far away it is.”— Simon Sinek, youtube.com
“You have to work very hard. Either work for the others or work for yourself. And I choose the way: work for myself. But if you really want to work for yourself, think about the others.”— Jack Ma, youtube.com
“Make the move. Make the action. To everybody, to any person, tomorrow is new.”— Jack Ma, youtube.com
“It's really not necessarily about how much talent you have right now, and really it's about how much passion you can fill yourself with over a period of time and create and create and create fearlessly and learn from your mistakes and make more mistakes until eventually, you'll be in a place that yo…”— Josiah Brooks, youtube.com
“You need the perspective to know that it’s not always going to be this bad. Shit gets better. Then it gets worse. But the fact that it gets better gives me a reason to keep trying.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I’m seeing the circular conversations of stress and fatalism and the bad cycles of self-doubt. It’s all a product of fear. I’m afraid of tomorrow, and I’m afraid of next week and I’m afraid that each choice I make will be the one I’ll look back on and regret forever… life’s a sh*t business sometimes…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Adapt until you flourish; confront all obstacles presented until there’s something new. Push forward. Push until it breaks open and shows the golden yolk. Push until you’re walking in the clear, the wind in your face, a clean path before you.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“I don’t know much for certain but I’m looking for answers and right now I believe this: you push forward today and you push forward tomorrow and every day is your chance to do the things you promised.”— Adam Gnade, wearepioneerspress.tumblr.com
“They say Icarus was a fool for flying too close to the sun. I say it's only because of him we know how close we can get. I love the fall of those brave enough to fail for the right reasons. Fuck the easy glory of mere excellence. The only legacy I will accept is to know that however far I got — it w…”— Jared Singer & Anthony Ragle, youtube.com