...These things are your becoming.

"The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people's diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming." -Sugar; Dear Sugar, The Rumpus Advice Column

The greatest waste...

"The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we can become." -Ben Herbster

We are what we repeatedly do...

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

Make the most of yourself...

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

The harder you work...

"The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender." -Vince Lombardi

Once you realize how good...

"Once you realize how good you really are, you never settle for playing less than your best." -Reggie Jackson

Our doubts are traitors...

"Our doubts are traitors / And make us lose the good we oft might gain / By fearing attempt." -Shakespeare

Destiny is not a matter...

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." -William Jennings Bryan

Most folks are about as happy...

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abrham Lincoln

Heroes aren't born or made...

"Heroes aren't born or made, they make themselves. There are probably lots of heroes who never do anything heroic. It doesn't matter. Failing doesn't matter. What matters is trying again." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children

Have you never dreamed...

"Have you never dreamed of riding the wind, chasing the clouds, dancing like a sunbeam on the face of the water? Would you not wish to see the past in an empty mirror--or to hear the music of the stars--to pull down the rainbow--to call up the long-lost dead? You have imagination: use it, give it vitality and force. Turn it into your weapon, a weapon more powerful and more deadly than any of the clumsy engines invented by modern Man." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children