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MOTIVATION

“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment.”
• Zig Ziglar

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
• Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than
unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race.”
• Calvin Coolidge

When you’re motivated, you believe. When you believe, you’re positive. Zig Ziglar says it best, “Positive thinking won't let you do everything. But it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.”

"I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is."
• Lynn Jennings, Three Time World Cross Country Champion, 1992 Olympic Bronze Medallist, 10,000 meters

The Road Not Taken

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, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear Though as for that the 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 onto way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

• Robert Frost(1916)