“Every day you make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.” – Sir Winston Churchill

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you and you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." -Oprah Winfrey

"I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our circumstances."

-Martha Washington

"All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers."

-Henry David Thoreau

"Love is a sweet tyranny, for the lover endureth his torments willingly."