Motivation and Inspiration

Because sometimes we all need a little...


Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Harold R. McAlindon

The history of the world is but the
biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice — keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Noah Porter

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell




The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Theodore Roosevelt