If you so choose, the challenges can make you stronger. If you so choose, the disappointments can make you more determined.

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not.

When you can clearly see yourself being there, you can see much more clearly how to get there. You can imagine the path to your dreams, and then start to actually walk it. Play an active role in your own future. Imagine with passion and detail how you'd most like it to be.

When one approach is not working to reach the desired goal, that's not a reason to abandon the goal. Instead, it is time to devise another approach.

What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top.

When the path becomes difficult, that's no reason to give up. In fact, it means you're making real progress.

Winners win not because they're allowed to, but because they decide to.