"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
- Irving Berlin

"Good luck needs no explanation."
- Shirley Temple Black

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
- Cicero

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"They can conquer who believe they can."
- Virgil

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
- Oscar Wilde

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
- John Keats

"Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
- Abraham Lincoln

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
- William Wordsworth

"You gain strength, experience, and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face... You must do the thing you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
- Dottie Walters

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'It might have been.'"
- John Greenleaf Whittier

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight- it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The men who try to do something and fail are indefinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones

"You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why not?'" - George Bernard Shaw

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
- Mark Twain

"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
- Terry Josephson

"What we focus on determines what we miss - and what we become."
- Unknown

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey

"I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect."
- Julius Irving

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
- Robert Browning

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus

"Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there."
- Josh Billings

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."
- Henry Ford

"He that would have the fruit must climb the tree."
- Thomas Fuller, M.D.

"We must become the change we want to see."
- Gandhi

"Whatever you are, be a good one."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden

"To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought."
- Tom Robbins

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
- Semisonic, Closing Time

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible!"
- Unknown