Facing it — always facing it — that’s the way to get through.
- Joseph Conrad

Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
- Wilferd Arlan Peterson

Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
- Tyler Kent White

People say money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.
- Joan Rivers

Good manners are the backbone of life. They will win you friends, serve your children, and keep your workplace happy. Manners are the architecture of gratitude. "ThankyouthankyouthatwassothoughfulwhatalovelythingtodoItreasureyouI'llbringsoupGodblessyou."

- Annie Potts

Reach for the stars. Even if you have to stand on a cactus.
- Susan Longacre

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

- Malcolm Forbes

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules while quietly playing by your own.

- Michael Korda

If we magnified our successes as much as we magnify our disappointments, we'd all be much happier.
- Abraham Lincoln

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
- Mark Victor Hansen

You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still lots of good in this world.
- S.E. Hinton

Optimism is the faith that leads to acheivement.
- Helen Keller

I marvel at how even the wrong choices can keep us on the right path. How the worst mistake can wind up being the best thing that ever happened to us.
- Katie Klein

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
- Paulo Coelho

If you surrender to the wind, you can ride it.
- Toni Morrison

Sweet are the uses of adversity;
Which, like the toad,
ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious
jewel in his head...
- William Shakespeare

She stood in the storm, & when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.
- Elizabeth Edwards

But I will remain where the top begins
Cause I am not a word, I am not a line
I am not a girl that can ever be defined
I am not fly, I am levitation
I represent an entire generation
I hear the criticism loud and clear
That is how I know that the time is near
 - Nicki Minaj