i love quotes! 
 
"The attitude you choose to assume toward life and everything it brings you will determine whether you realize your aspirations.  Your talent determines what you can do.  Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do.  You attitude determines how well you do it."  -Lou Holtz
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you."   -Oprah
"My motto is, wake up and have a good day, have a good time, no matter what goes wrong, and turn that into something good.  Come out smiling, come out having a good time."
-Magic Johnson
Never be content with someone else's definition of you. Instead, define yourself by your own beliefs, your own truths, your own understanding of who you are and how you came to be. And never be content until you are happy with the unique person you are.  -Unknown
"All your life you are told the things you cannot do. All your life they will say you're not good enough or strong enough or talented enough; they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this. THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly. AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES."  -Unknown
"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."  -William Saroyan
...these are just a few of my favorites