Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. ― Calvin Coolidge

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After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. — Nelson Mandela

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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. — Abraham Lincoln

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. — Unknown

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Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. ― Marcus Aurelius

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Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them. — Albert Einstein

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