Never settle for the crumbs of life.

I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats, yesterday’s aches of the heart, for why should I throw good after bad?

I will welcome happiness for it enlarges my heart; Yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; Yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

Choice! The key is choice. You have options. You need not spend your life wallowing in failure, ignorance, grief, poverty, shame, and self-pity. But hold on! If this is true then why have so many among us apparently elected to live in this manner? The answer is obvious. Those who live in unhappy failure have never exercised their options for a better way of life because they have never been aware that had any choices

In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits.

Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.