i found this book at work called lines to live by...i hope you don't mind me sharing some of it
Nothing Worthwhile Is Free
There's no free gate to anything worthwhile-not to skill nor health nor to success nor friendship, nor even to the lasting love and respect of those who are nearest and dearest to us.
These are the items that make up the best income that any human being can have, and the sum of that income will be measured by the sum of what we are willing to pay to get it.
you cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometime fight it out or parish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?? -Robert Louis Stevenson