“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
“Concentration is the secret of strength”
“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”
(Science has shown that, in fact, playfulness is a learned trait, one that benefits us physically, socially, and emotionally at any age.)
“Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains.”
Spoken by actor Tim Robbins in the motion picture “Bull Durham” as written by screenwriter
and director Ron Shelton, a former minor league baseball player.
Nelson Mandela said:
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison”
After spending 27 years in prison for opposing apartheid in South Africa.