Measure

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King Jr.

Doubt

Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is. 

Lucretius, Roman philosophers

Conscience

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. 

HL Mencken

Change

To exist is to change; to change is to mature; to mature is to create oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson

Build

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. 

Charles Jones

Decide

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.
Dr Seuss

Invincible

In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

Albert Camus

Perfection

He who thinks he has no faults has one.
Unknown

Short cuts

There are no short cuts to any place worth going.

Unknown

Difference

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. 

Tom Clancy

Weak

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.
Robert Frost

Character

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look down

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping him up.
Jesse Jackson

Confidence

If you let your head get too big, it'll break your neck.
Elvis Presley

Choice

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers

Lion

It is better to live one day as a lion, than a thousand days as a lamb. 

Roman proverb

Wish

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Richard Bach

Accomplishments

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.
Seneca

Happy

When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down "Happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment and I told them they didn't understand life. 

John Lennon

Lead

The man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Crook

Together

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Anonymus

Team

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.
Vista M. Kelly

Finish

You get credit for what you finish, not what you start. 

Unknown

Self-improvement

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

Steve Young

Do

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

or as Nike would say: Just do it.

Circumstances

I don't believe in circumstances. The people who really make it in this world are the ones who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, they make them.
Unknown 

Life

Always strive to add rungs to your ladder of life.
Unknown

Life

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Albert Einstein

Vacation

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.
The Wizard of Oz

Thinking

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Shakespeare

Laugh

The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.

Sebastian R N Chamfort