pep talk...

a dozen quotes to motivate the weary dreamer…

When your mind says give up, hope whispers one more try. - Oprah Winfrey

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle, a Greek philosopher.

You can't run your race watching everyone else run theirs! Keep your eyes on the finish line & just grind! - Tony A. Gaskins Jr.

We should never let anyone else’s perceived inability to evolve slow down our own development. - Russell Simmons

Please hold onto your hope. It is in such limited supply around  the world these days. Hold onto it and be proud that you are one of the ones that does. - Tyler Knott Gregson

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. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle. - Steve Jobs

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love. - Emma Watson

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. - Robert Louis Stevenson

If you live in a world where you are the smartest person in the room, where everybody is pulling at you, everybody is drawing from you, everybody is nursing from the milk of your wisdom.. You are in the wrong room. You need to go into another room that makes you think again, that makes you read again, that makes you reignite your passion. You need to be around people who make deposits not just withdraws into your destiny. - Bishop T.D. Jakes

An artist’s life is an unconventional life. It leads away from the example of the past. It struggles painfully against its own conditioning. It appears to rebel but in reality it is an inspired way of life. - Agnes Martin

Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender who  you are for what you could become.  - unknown

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid. - E.M. Bounds