"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 careful whose toes you step on today
because they might be connected to
the foot that kicks your ass tomorrow!!"
- Brandon Ramos
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes
"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything."
- Mark Twain
