When you dont inherit an identity you have to define it on your own.
You must believe in yourself enough to be the person now that others will remember you for later.
In life, it's not the genetic guy who wins or the guy with the most potential who wins; it's the person with the greatest perseverance who wins. Always be willing to get up and go at it again and again. That's the guy who has his hands raised later in life. That's the guy you guys need to be.
The difference between a winner and a loser - they both failed, but the winner gets back up and does it again and again until it goes his way.
You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Success doesn’t know these things about cold or early or tired. It just knows if you showed up or not.
Why cry about missed opportunities when you have the ability to smile at opportunities lived? The past has created who you are NOW, where we learn and grow from the past, never resting upon previous achievements or allowing past failure to paralyze us in our current endeavor. All that was has created us to be the best we currently are for our greatest hour is about to arise!
In Russia there are no roads - only areas.
The Black Keys is just a band that wants to get on stage and rock it.
If I was writing a lifestyle book it would have the same advice on every page, and you’d know it all already. Eat lots of fruit and vegetables, and live your whole life in every way as well as you can: exercise regularly as part of your daily routine, avoid obesity, don’t drink too much, don’t smoke, and don’t get distracted from the real, basic, simple causes of ill health. But as we will see, even these things are hard to do on your own, and in reality require wholesale social and political changes.
All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.