Chelsea drew strength from a collection of inspirational “quotes to live by” written on post-it notes and scattered throughout her room:
“Energy and persistence conquer all things” – Benjamin Franklin
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world” – Gandhi
“Insist on yourself, never imitate” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Go Big or Go Home!” – Author Unknown
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“They can because they think they can” – Virgil
“To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first” – Shakespeare
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world” – John Muir
“If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves” – Thomas Edison
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader” – John Quincy Adams
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude” – Thomas Jefferson