Just enough sense to stick with something – a chore, a task, project, until it’s completed pays off much better than idle intelligence, even if idle intelligence be of genius caliber. – David J Schwartz

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and reap a destiny. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you;  be careful the friends you choose for you will become like  them.  -WC Stone

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions  as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing  them. -Denis Waitley

Never fear shadows, that always means there is a light shining somewhere.   — Jonathan Santos