Motivational Monday

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
– T.S. Eliot

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
– Booker T. Washington

"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
– St. Francis de Sales

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"Never give out while there is hope; but hope not beyond reason, for that shows more desire than judgment."
– William Penn

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
– Vincent van Gogh

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
– Ursula K. Le Guin

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
– John Ruskin

"No one can really pull you up very high — you lose your grip on the rope. But on your own two feet you can climb mountains."
– Louis Brandeis

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
– Rita Mae Brown