Strive to be Better!

Strive not to be perfect...

rather, strive to be

better than you were

yesterday.

~Kim Franklin-Magana

No obstacles!

No Obstacles!  

Let no object, person, or action, 

stand in the way of your dreams, desires, 

or goals!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

High Hopes!

“Strength does not come from physical capacity.

 It comes from an indomitable will.”

~Mahatma Gandhi

Song & Lyrics:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOOTF8vu6ps

How to Begin? STEP #1: Just Begin! STEP #2: Keep Going!

“The man who removes a mountain 
begins by carrying away 
small stones.”

~William Faulkner
(1897-1962)

Raised in the south, William Faulkner later won the Nobel Prize for Literature.  
Learn more here:  http://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html#b

Perseverance!

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done,

 and then we shall find the way.” 

~Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

A Life in Brief

When Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860, seven slave states left the Union to form the Confederate States of America, and four more joined when hostilities began between the North and South. A bloody civil war then engulfed the nation as Lincoln vowed to preserve the Union, enforce the laws of the United States, and end the secession.

More:  

http://millercenter.org/president/lincoln

Overnight SUCCESS?

Everyone else trains just as hard as well 
and that there really is no such a thing 
as

overnight success.
~Julie Benz

BEFORE you give up...

BEFORE

you give up,

take a break,

take a breath,

then proceed

to prevail!

~Kim Franklin-Magana

REAL Glory!

The real glory 
is being knocked to your knees 
and then coming back.

That's real glory.

~Vince Lombardi

Rise to Your Potential!

Kites rise highest against the wind,

not with it.

- Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a BritishConservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. He is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

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I Can't...I Can!

“The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.”


~Benjamin Mays



Delicate Strength...

True strength 
is delicate.

~Louise Nevelson 

Poet, Novelist, and Scientist

"Each indecision brings it's own delays 
and days are lost lamenting over lost days...
What you can do or think you can do, begin it. 
 For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it"

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1749-1832, Poet, Novelist, and Scientist