Quotes from the greats that will help keep you on your toes

If you fantasize, then life is like walking along a mountain ridge: up and down, and then up and down again. And as life goes on, you want to return to the camp, to the plateau and go nowhere else. Everyone has his own choice. But what will be interesting if you settle down in one place? At any age, after any trouble – everything can be started again.

1. “Goals should never be easy. They should be uncomfortable to make you work toward,” – Michael Phelps

2. “Age is just a limitation you put in your head,” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee

3. “Don’t be afraid of failure because it’s your path to success,” – LeBron James

6. “The secret of life is to fall seven times but get up eight times,” – Paulo Coelho

7. “Failure is simply an opportunity to start again, but more wisely” – Henry Ford

8. “The greatest glory in life lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall,” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is only the courage to continue on the path that counts” – Winston Churchill

10. “I can accept failure. Everyone experiences them in some way. But I can’t accept not trying,” – Michael Jordan

11. “Yesterday I was smart, and that’s why I wanted to change the world. Today I have become wise, and so I am changing myself,” – Jalaluddin Rumi

12. “People who know how to change over and over again are much more reliable and happy than those who don’t,” – Stephen Fry

13. “If we don’t change, we don’t evolve. And if we’re not evolving, we’re not truly living,” – Gail Sheehy

14. “We can’t get back yesterday, but what happens tomorrow is up to us,” – Lyndon Johnson, 36th President of the United States

15. “Everyone has the opportunity to change and evolve until their last breath,” – M. F. Ryan

16. “It’s never too late or – in my case – never too early to become what you want to become. There’s no time frame, you can start whenever. You can change or stay the same – there are no rules” – Francis Scott Fitzgerald

17. “The greatest glory is not in never making a mistake, but in being able to rise every time you fall” – Konfucius

18. “I’ve missed 9,000 times in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I was entrusted with the deciding shot and I missed. I’ve suffered defeats in my life over and over again. And that’s why I’m successful,” – Michael Jordan