Les Brown

This faith, no guts, no glory.

This faith, faith not tested can't be trusted.

This faith will find a way.

The bottom line is that if you're talking about beating everybody else on the planet to a thing, what you're actually talking about is what are you prepared to sacrifice psychologically, physically, existentially, relationally, socially, in terms of your self-esteem, your comfort and everything, right?

All of that.

You must be willing.

Success is the only revenge.

As you expand, they shrink into irrelevance.

As you get louder, no one can hear them.

You don't beat them.

You cast a shadow so big no one can see them to begin with.

Why is it that most people don't pursue their dreams or don't do better than what they're doing if they're capable of doing it?

I think that many of us don't go the next step because we don't know what to do yet.

And I say that the reason that we don't even explore the possibility of what to do is because subconsciously we don't believe that it can happen for us and we don't believe that we deserve it.

So here's what I'm suggesting.

How much time do you spend working on you?

How much time do you spend every day working on your dream?

In the last 90 days, how many books have you read?

In the last year, what new skill or knowledge have you acquired?

What kind of investment have you made in you?