Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

(Horace)

 It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

(John Green)

 To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

(Pearl S. Buck)

 Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

(Coco Chanel)

 Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

(Napoleon Hill)

United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we  fight, we will, with God's help, go forward to our greatest victory.

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

(Rabindranath Tagore)

 If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

(Billie Jean King)

 We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

(Anais Nin)

 Without a minimum of hope, we cannot so much as start the struggle.

(Paulo Freire)

There's no such things as a horse that can't be rode or a cowboy that can't be throwed.

(American Proverb)

Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.

(JOHN McCAIN)

 My rule is: If you meet the weakest vessel, attack. If it is a vessel equal to yours, attack. And if it is stronger than yours, also attack.

Stepan Makarov.