Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn t get you anywhere. -- Anonymous
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence2, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle
Motivation will almost always beat mere3 talent. -- Norman R. Augustine
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren Bacall
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James Baldwin
I don t know anything about luck. I ve never banked on it, and I m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn t. -- Lucille Ball
The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold Bennett
Having once decided4 to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium5 and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished6 a tiresome7 labor8 is immense. -- Thomas Arnold Bennett
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh Billings
He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity s sunrise -- William Blake
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip Brooks9
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you ll land among the stars -- Les Brown
We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches10, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing11 straight ahead, come what may. -- Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson
Genius is 99 percent perspiration12 and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert Einstein
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein
It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Vitality13 shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward14. -- Henry Ford15
Obstacles are those frightful16 things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry Ford
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
You can t build a reputation on what you are going to 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 do will be insignificant17, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen Hubbard
May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. -- Irish Blessing18
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen Keller
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought19 in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen Keller
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis Kennedy
He who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. Lec
Whatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham Lincoln
It s not whether you get knocked down, it s whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering20 before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham Maslow
Victory belongs to the most persevering21. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre Norton
Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid
Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey
To achieve the impossible, it is precisely22 the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Fanaticism23 consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George Santayana
Every new beginning comes from some other beginning s end. -- Semisonic, Closing Time
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca
... then the world s mine oyster24 -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens
If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there s a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric25
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly26 Known As Prince
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tung
Opportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun Tzu
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin Wilson
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball
Do or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed27 to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks
