Inspiration

The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-itiveness  and third, common sense. 

-- Thomas A. Edison (1847-1931) American Inventor

There is more in us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps, for the rest of our lives, we will be unwilling to settle for less.
-- Kurt Hahn

Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
- Amy Poehler

Babe Ruth hit more home runs than anyone.  He also struck out more than often than anyone.

Act the way you want to be - and soon you will be the way you act.

This is your world. Shape it or someone else will.
- - Gary Lew

Whether you believe you can or can’t, you are right.

- - Henry Ford

To live at this time is an inestimable privilege, and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities.
- - Grenville Kleiser (1868, Toronto-1935, NYC), Author

Aerodynamically the bumble bee should not be able to fly; but the bumble bee does not know it; so it goes on flying anyway.  
- - Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)

Life begins... at the end of our comfort zone.
- - Unknown; but heard it in Ushuaia too - at pre-expedition (to Antarctica) lecture

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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all uphill, 

When the funds are low and the debts are high, 

And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit-

Rest if you must, but don't you quit. 

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a fellow turns about

When he might have won had he stuck it out.

Don't give up though the pace seems slow -

You may succeed with another blow. 

Often the goal is nearer than

It seems to a faint and faltering man;

Often the struggler has given up

When he might have captured the victor's cup;

And he learned too late when the night came down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -

The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,

And you never can tell how close you are,

It might be near when it seems afar;

So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -

It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

 - - Author unknown and sometimes mistakenly thought to be Greenleaf Whitter