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#1

“The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.”
― John Wooden

#2

“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: activism, determination, enterprise, success

1888 likes

#3

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson

tags: enterprise, hard-work, inspirational, time

476 likes

#4

“You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....”
― Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: leadership

389 likes

#5

“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: motivational, work

1951 likes

#6

“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance

1086 likes

#7

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: inspiration, responsibility

1079 likes

#8

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation

3627 likes

#9

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”
― Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration

3539 likes

#10

“Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne”
― Andrew Vachss, Batman: The Ultimate Evil

24 likes

#11

“Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.”
― Martin Luther

tags: adversity, battle, courage, faithfulness, loyalty

217 likes

#12

“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

tags: achievement, adversity, easy, effort, envy, lives

1397 likes

#13

“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
― Terry Goodkind

tags: adversity, sword, truth

1267 likes

#14

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
― John Churton Collins

tags: friendship

965 likes

#15

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you”
― Zig Ziglar

tags: life

57 likes

#16

“Tough times never last. Tough people do”
― Robert Schuller

tags: inspirational

114 likes

#17

“Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

102 likes

#18

“The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.”
― Tom Landry

12 likes

#19

“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
― John Wooden

tags: attitude, excellence, inspirational

309 likes

#20

“Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.”
― Bethany Hamilton, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board

tags: courage, girls, women

292 likes

#21

“If you live gladly to make others glad in God, your life will be hard, your risks will be high, and your joy will be full.”
― John Piper, Don't Waste Your Life Study Guide

tags: faith

258 likes

#22

“Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

929 likes

#23

“But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.”
― Louie Giglio

tags: faith, pride, religion, selflessness

60 likes

#24

“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: faith, unfathomable

1794 likes

#25

“I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.”
― John Henry Newman

tags: god, inspirational, love

2361 likes

#26

“Wherever you are, be all there! Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.”
― Jim Elliot

300 likes

#27

“We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody”
― John Piper

129 likes

#28

“If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, friend. He is crazy about you! ”
― Max Lucado

569 likes

#29

“The biblical purpose of every conversation you have, in every personal interaction, is that they person who hears you will receive grace.”
― C.J. Mahaney

15 likes

#30

“Every good thing in the Christian life grows in the soil of humility. Without humility, every virtue and every grace withers. That’s why Calvin said humility is first, second, and third in the Christian faith. ”
― John Piper

tags: christianity

56 likes

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