“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

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -– Albert Ellis

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. –Zig Ziglar

I’m a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us. –Jack Canfield