"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe."

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"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

- Muhammad Ali

Courage

"Don’t count the days, make the days count."

- Muhammad Ali

Time Management

"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

Achievement

"I hate every minute of training. But I said, don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

- Muhammad Ali

Perseverance

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’"

- Muhammad Ali

Perseverance

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"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