Finish each day and be done with it.

You have done what you could;

some blunders and absurdities have 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.

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.  Abraham Lincoln

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.  Mark Twain

Courage

You Must Try Again

Life is a long and bumpy road.

We each carry our troubles,

like a heavy load.

There are many hard turns

and some dead ends,

But whenever we're stuck,

we must try again.

No one's got an easy ride,

But failure can be pushed aside.

When we give up hope

nothing good can happen.

So, when all seems lost

you must try again.

You can't have a meal,

if you don't sit at a table.

You won't learn the moral,

if you don't read the fable.

You can't take control,

if you're plagued by inaction.

And you won't overcome loss

if you don't try again.

When the coin's in the air,

if you don't pick heads or tails,

Having not made a choice,

you are bound to fail.

But if you choose and choose wrong,

you can always still win,

Because on the next flip

you can still try again.

Those who succeed

seem to have it made,

Basking in the sunshine

or lying in the shade.

But they've been down too

and it was just then,

That they picked themselves up,

so they could try again.

So, when your spirit is weak

and you need to cry

And you want to be happy,

but you have to sigh,

When things seem bleakest,

that's the time when

You must shrug it all off

and try, try again.

by: Randy Grayson

Don’t Quit

When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit.

Author Unknown to me