“No matter what you’ve done for yourself or for humanity, if you can’t look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”  –Lee Iacocca

“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.”  –Ayn Rand

“Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
–Winston Churchill

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
- Zig Ziglar

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Determination drives us to
Exceed our expetations while continuing to
Thrive within the challenges presented.
Exertion put forth
Rationalises our interior
Motives, while continually
Igniting the needed thrust to
Navigate to our
Astronomic hopes and dreams.
To sustain our determination we need to
Inspect and reflet on
Our past while
Negleting our doubts to charge to our endeavours.

–Michael John Steele

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man improves himself as he follows his path; if he stands still, waiting to improve before he makes a decision, he’ll never move. Paulo Coelho