If we plant a seed in a desert and it fails to grow, do we ask, "What is wrong with the seed?" No. The real conspiracy lays in this: to look at the environment around the seed and to ask, "what must change in this environment such that the seed can grow?" 

–– Pat Deegan from "Recovery and the Conspiracy of Hope"

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
     -- Napoleon Bonaparte

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
                                                      --  Joseph Addison

To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
                                    –– William Shakespeare

Someone dancing inside us
learned only a few steps
the do-your-work two step
and the what-did-you-expect waltz

He hasn't seen yet
the woman standing away from the light
the one with the dark eyes
who knows the rumba and strange
jumping steps from the mountains of Bulgaria

If they dance together
something unexpected will happen
If they don't, the next world
will be a lot like this one.
                                                          –– Bill Holm

Hope holds the truth that the future is open, uncertain and influenceable. We don't know what the future holds, but we know that we have the power to influence it, change it, create it, relate with it, and ultimately to be our wholehearted selves in it.

– Krista MacKinnon

Motivation is important but it doesn't last. Here are three quotes on translating motivation into habit:

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” – Aristotle

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.      — Lao Tzu

The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. 
— Steve Furtick

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.

— Heraclitus