After you have listed the top five excuses, craft a sentence or two that overcomes each objection.

What else changes a person but the living of a story? And what is a story but the wanting for something difficult and the willingness to work for it?

Nothing worth doing ever, ever, ever came easy.

Nothing is easy. But who wants nothing?

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.

When you hit a wall, try to dig a tunnel beneath or fly above!

As you move forward on your journey from where you are to where you want to be, you are going to have to confront your fears. Fear is natural. Whenever you start a new project, take on a new venture, or put yourself out there, there is usually fear. Unfortunately, most people let fear stop them from progress.

This life of supreme blessedness is an end, and the pilgrim who is striving towards it, the prodigal returning to it, must travel thither, and employ means to get there. He must pass through the country of his animal desires, disentangling himself from their intricacies, simplifying them, overcoming them; this is the way, and he has no enemies but what spring within himself.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.