First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of. (ZigZiglar

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Life is a grindstone. Whether it wears you down or polishes you up depends on what YOU are made of. (ZigZiglar, a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. (William Faulkner)

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity; it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. (William Faulkner), a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. (General George S. Patton)

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. (General George S. Patton), a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ( Charles R. Swindoll)

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations. ( Charles R. Swindoll), a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll

Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. Charles R. Swindoll, a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower

Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, a photo by Property#1 on Flickr.