Who you surround yourself with is who you become. Alex Lieberman (Source)

Friendship is more than being there for your friends when they need you, it’s also allowing your friends to be there for you. Shane Parrish

Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. Unknown

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendships are a reciprocation of efforts. Justin Kan (Source)

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart. Eleanor Roosevelt

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover; hard to find and lucky to have. Irish Proverb

A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth. Charles Darwin

 Friendship is a sheltering tree. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave and impossible to forge. G. Randolf

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Best friends don’t expect anything from you. They just accept you the way you are. Maxime Lagacé

A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. Elbert Hubbard

It’s not what we have, but who we have. Winnie The Pooh

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

Friendship is not about whom you know the longest. It is about who came and never left. Paulo Coelho

 An egoist lives in poverty. A kind person lives in abundance. Maxime Lagacé

Be a little kinder than you have to. E. Lockhart

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it! George Elliston

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself. Teresa of Avila

Being nice is a competitive advantage. Anthony Pompliano (Source)

Kindness and empathy is not weakness, it’s strength. Lex Fridman (Source)

It is futile to judge a kind deed by its motives. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. Eric Hoffer

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world. William Shakespeare

Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind, even if you are right. Haruki Murakami

Be kind to unkind people – they need it the most. Unknown

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou

 There’s no such things as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. Scott Adams

Politeness is the flower of humanity. Joseph Joubert

Be nice to strangers. Be nice even when it doesn’t matter. Sam Altman

Kids want to appear tough and independent. Adults want to appear kind and perfect. The wise are just kind. Maxime Lagacé

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money. John Ruskin

 Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up. Jesse Jackson

Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. Confucius

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. Mark Twain

Stay focused on the mission. Anthony Pompliano (Source)

Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. Franz Kafka

 Relentlessly pursue what you want in life. Anthony Pompliano

If you don’t aspire to be the best at something, you never will be. Anthony Pompliano

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. Kahlil Gibran

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. Hada Bejar

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. C. A. Bartol

 Productivity in a day depends on the amount of time you spend doing. Productivity in a year hinges on the amount of time you spend thinking. Productivity in a career rests on the amount of time you spend learning. Adam Grant

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody. Damian Lillard

Authentic, high-conviction vision is rare a

 Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. T.S. Eliot

You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else. Naval Ravikant

Who we are is largely a result of who we think we might become. Thibaut

Early conviction is indistinguishable from madness. Jack Butcher

If you’re not obsessed with it, you’ll never master it. Shane Parrish (Source)

Constant repetition carries conviction. Robert Collier

Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough. T.S. Eliot

You can get almost anything you want out of life, as long as it’s one thing and you want it far more than anything else. Naval Ravikant

Who we are is largely a result of who we think we might become. Thibaut

Early conviction is indistinguishable from madness. Jack Butcher

If you’re not obsessed with it, you’ll never master it. Shane Parrish (Source)

Constant repetition carries conviction. Robert Collier

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001) 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim 

Courage is reclaiming your life after a devastating event robs you of your confidence and self-esteem. It is facing tomorrow with a firm resolve to reach deep within yourself to find another strength, another talent...It is taking yourself to another level of your own existence where you are once again whole, productive, special...--Catherine Britton 

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear.--Mark Twain 

Courage is the atom of change.--Bettina R. Flores 

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.--Aristotle 

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.--Clare Boothe Luce (in Reader's Digest, 1979) 

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.--Maya Angelou 

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.--Raymond Lindquist 

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things;
Knows not the livid loneliness of fear;
Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear
The sound of wings.--Amelia Earhart 

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.--Ruth Gordon 

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.--Winston Churchill 

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less than a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. People do what they must--in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures--and that is the basis of all human morality.--John F. Kennedy 

Courageous risks are life-giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.--Joan L. Curcio 

Deal honestly and objectively with yourself; intellectual honesty and personal courage are the hallmarks of great character.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.--Neal A. Maxwell 

Do the thing you fear, then the death of fear is certain.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes) 

Do what you fear and fear disappears.--David Joseph Schwartz 

Don't forget to pack your courage for your journey to greatness.--Dave Weinbaum 

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.--Robert F. Kennedy 

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.--Erica Jong 

Fear and love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want.--Gerald Jampolsky 

Above all, challenge yourself. You may well surprise yourself at what strengths you have, what you can accomplish.--Cecile M. Springer 

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.--Gen. George S. Patton 

Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.--John Amatt 

All my life I've always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.--Babe Didrikson Zaharias 

Because our gifts carry us out into the world and make us participants in life, the uncovering of them is one of the most important tasks confronting any one of us.--Elizabeth O'Connor (Eighth Day of Creation: Gifts and Creativity) 

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.--Roger Crawford 

The big challenge is to become all that you have the possibility of becoming. You cannot believe what it does to the human spirit to maximize your human potential and stretch yourself to the limit.--Jim Rohn ( Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine - February 11, 2003) 

Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.--James Ramesy Ullman 

The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton 

Embrace the faith that every challenge surmounted by your energy; every problem solved by your wisdom; every soul stirred by your passion; and every barrier to justice brought down by your determination will ennoble your life, inspire others, serve your country, and explode outward the boundaries of what is achievable on this earth.--Madeleine Albright 

The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life or say and do things that make people think.--Justice William O. Douglas 

The great crises of life are not, I think, necessarily those which are in themselves the hardest to bear, but those for which we are least prepared.--Mary Adams 

The greatest challenge we face as human beings is acting on what we know. We don’t lack for knowing, we lack for doing.--Mark Sanborn ( Up, Down, or Sideways) 

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.--Carol Burnett 

I leave you love. I leave you hope. I leave you the challenge of developing confidence in one another. I leave you respect for the use of power. I leave you faith.--Mary McLeod Bethune 

I often feel that our greatest individual challenge is to close the gap between our unflattering self-concepts and the truth of our magnificence. To see ourselves through the eyes of those who love us.--Jeff Brown (Ascending with Both Feet on the Ground: Words to Awaken Your Heart)

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies 

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein 

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker 

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create) 

“You don’t need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” ―Martin Luther King Jr.

Do the best you can. No one can do more than that.” ―John Wooden

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

’It’s never too late to be what you might’ve been.” ―George Eliot

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” ―Walt Disney

“Trust yourself that you can do it and get it.” ―Baz Luhrmann

“Don’t let what you can’t do interfere with what you can do.” ―Unknown

“You can do anything you set your mind to.” ―Benjamin Franklin

“All we can do is the best we can do.” ―David Axelrod

“You never know what you can do until you try.” ―William Cobbett

“Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things you did not do than the ones you did.” ―Mark Twain

Try not to become a man of success, but rather become a man of value.” ―Albert Einstein

“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.” ―Nelson Mandela

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” ―Jack Welch

“The only thing standing in the way between you and your goal is the BS story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” ―Jordan Belfort

Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” ―Unknown

“When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters―one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.” ―John F. Kennedy

“Good. Better. Best. Never let it rest. ’Til your good is better and your better is best.” ―St. Jerome.

“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” ―Albert Einstein

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” ―Arthur Ashe

“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” ―Anne Frank

Dreams don’t work unless you do.” ―John C. Maxwell

“Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded there.” ―Dr. Wayne D. Dyer

“Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you.” ―Walt Whitman

“What defines us is how well we rise after falling.” ―Lionel, from the movie Maid in Manhattan

“Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” ―Helen Keller

“Begin anywhere.” ―John Cage

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” ―Katharine Hepburn

“You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.” ―Herb Brooks

“Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” ―Yuri Kochiyama

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang out.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” ―Suzy Kassem

“I never lose. Either I win or learn.” ―Nelson Mandela

“Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.” ―Ken Poirot

Focus on being productive instead of busy.” ―Tim Ferriss

“It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, but a good amount of it actually is.” ―Unknown

“When someone says you can’t do it, do it twice and take pictures.” — Unknown

“I didn’t get there by wishing for it, but by working for it.” ―Estée Lauder

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.” ―Lalah Deliah

“If you’re too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? You’re on the right track.” ―Susan Fales-Hill

“Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.” ―Helen Keller

“Sunshine all the time makes a desert.” ―Arabic proverb

“The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” ―Frank Sinatra

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” ―Chinese Proverb

“Only the paranoid survive.” —Andy Grove

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth

“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours?’” —Leah Busque

“We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes―understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success.” ―Arianna Huffington

“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it. Sauté it. Whatever. MAKE.” —Joss Whedon

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” —William W. Purkey

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”―Neil Gaiman

“Everything you can imagine is real.”―Pablo Picasso

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ―Helen Keller

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” ―Lewis Carroll

“Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.” —Socrates

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right―for you’ll be criticized anyway.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” ―Abraham Lincoln

The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” —Unknown

“If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day, it usually is.” —Catherine Pulsifier

“You can either experience the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The choice is yours.” —Unknown

“Impossible is just an opinion.” —Paulo Coelho

“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.” —Isabelle Lafleche

“Magic is believing in yourself. If you can make that happen, you can make anything happen.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” —Elon Musk

“Hold the vision, trust the process.” —Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” —John D. Rockefeller

“People who wonder if the glass is half empty or full miss the point. The glass is refillable.” —Unknown

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” ―Tim Notke

“If everything seems to be under control, you’re not going fast enough.” ―Mario Andretti

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” ―Thomas Edison

“The only difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.” ―Jimmy Johnson

“The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.” ―Oscar Wilde

“Unsuccessful people make their decisions based on their current situations. Successful people make their decisions based on where they want to be.” ―Benjamin Hardy

“Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit.” ―Kamari, a.k.a. Lyrikal

“Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.” ―Leah LaBelle

“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” ―H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” ―Earl Nightingale

“If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.” ―Kenneth Goldsmith

“The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.” ―Oprah Winfrey

“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” ―Napoleon Hill

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt

“At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.” ―Unknown

“Amateurs sit around and wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.” ―Stephen King

“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” ―Steve Jobs

“Nothing will work unless you do.” ―Maya Angelou

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” ―Christine Caine

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” ―Unknown

“Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” ―Unknown