“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

–John Wooden

Just because you can’t do something right off the bat doesn’t mean it’s not worth the effort.

Perhaps you’ll improve, perhaps you’ll triumph or perhaps you’ll just learn something in the process.

But regardless of how things turn out, your efforts won’t be in vain.

“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground.”

-Rumi

“Do it with passion or not at all.”

-Tyece Wilkins

“It takes discipline to be a free spirit.”

-Gabrielle Roth

“Be careful with your thoughts for they become your words.

Be careful with your words for they become your actions.

Be careful with your actions for they become your habits.

Be careful with your habits for they become your character. Be careful with your character for it becomes your destiny.”
-Unknown

This helped me understand simply how the harmful thoughts in my mind had so much power and I wasn’t going to let them happen.

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment. I told them they didn’t understand life.”

-John Lennon

“All happiness depends on courage and work.”

-Honore de Balzac

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

-Ghandi

“Be the kind of person you want to meet.”

“Love and Pride can’t occupy the same space, baby. Only one will make you free.”

It’s a lyric of a song by Sara Groves

She is local to my hometown in Minnesota.

I’ve been listening to her for most of my adult life. She always speaks right to my heart.

“Success is determined by how determined you are to succeed.”

This quote has spoken to me since I was very young.

I heard it on TV during an Olympic figure skating competition and I never forgot it.

It’s a constant reminder that I am in control of my success.

When I set a vision for something, my determination to make it happen is what usually gets me there!

“Maybe, if you put your disbelief aside, roll up your sleeves, take some risks, and totally go for it, you’ll wake up one day and realize you’re living the kind of life you used to be jealous of.”

-Jen Sincero, You Are A Badass