1. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. – Michael Jordan
2. Faith is why I’m here today and faith is why I made it through. – Jonathan Anthony Burkett
3. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. – Henry David Thoreau
4. The last battle always seems the toughest and to give up will always bring the worst defeat. – Terry Mark
5. We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. – Kenji Miyazawa
6. Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. – Thomas Edison
7. We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us. – William J. Brennan, Jr.
8. Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. – Leroy Satchel Paige
9. “Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.” — Edward R. Tufte
10. “If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
11. “If you can’t explain it to a 6-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” — Albert Einstein
12. “The height of sophistication is simplicity.” — Clare Boothe Luce
13. “The greatest ideas are the simplest.” — William Golding
14. “In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15. “There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.” — Leo Tolstoy
16. “Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.” — Henry David Thoreau
17. “A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us.” — Sri Chinmoy
18. “Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.” — Steve Jobs
19. “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” — Plato
20. “Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.” — Martin H. Fischer
