PERSEVERANCE! I chose perseverance because you need to always strive and drive for the top or your very best. To be the best beat the best. 
MY WORD for 2017
on Month: January 2017
on Riddle of the week!
on This weeks ridddddle.
In marble halls as white as milk,
Lined with skin as soft as silk,
Within a fountain crystal clear
A golden apple doth appear.
No doors are there to this stronghold,
Yet thieves break in and steal the gold.
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