“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain
Compassion
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
- Mark Twain
Motivation
"Synergy — the bonus that is achieved when things work together harmoniously."
- Mark Twain
Teamwork
"Stay away from those people who try to disparage your ambitions. Small minds will always do that, but great minds will give you a feeling that you can become great too."
- Mark Twain
Ambition
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity