“I’m not crying because of you; you’re not worth it. I’m crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”
"Let your courage inspire the world around you."
- Steve Maraboli
Courage
"A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy."
- Steve Maraboli
New Beginnings
"A new day is nature’s way of telling us to write a new chapter in our story."
- Steve Maraboli
New Beginnings
"You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable."
- Steve Maraboli
Self-esteem
"When I tell you that you're beautiful, I don't just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful."
- Steve Maraboli
Self-esteem
"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