“A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials.”
"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."
- Warren Buffett
Awareness
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."
- Warren Buffett
Integrity
"The greatest investment you can make is in yourself."
- Warren Buffett
Personal Growth
"It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."
- Warren Buffett
Personal Growth
"Without passion, you don’t have energy. Without energy, you have nothing."
- Warren Buffett
Motivation
"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