I’ve been to the darkest places, but I’ve also been to the brightest places.

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"I think everything is possible as long as long as you put your mind, work and time into it."

- Michael Phelps

Belief

"I can only control my performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day."

- Michael Phelps

Self-awareness

"I'm doing this for me. If I don't become as successful as you all think I would be or should be and you think it tarnishes my career, then that's your own opinion. I'm doing this because I want to come back and I enjoy being in the pool and I enjoy being in the sport of swimming."

- Michael Phelps

Self-awareness

"In business, words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

- Michael Phelps

Integrity

"I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along."

- Michael Phelps

Personal Growth

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

Hope

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope