"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

~ Booker T. Washington

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."

~ Jim Ryun

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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

~ Harper Lee

"Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts."

~ Edward Murrow

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."

- Charles Darwin

“He who stops being better, stops being good”

- Oliver Cromwell

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Be not afraid of Greatness..."

- William Shakespeare

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.”

- Mark Twain

"A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime..."

- Ted Williams

"I've found that luck is quite predictable...

If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

- Brian Tracy

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”

- Babe Ruth

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."

- Walter Cronkite

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”

- Ray Kroc

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

- Thomas Edison

"Determine never to be idle..."

"...No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

- Thomas Jefferson

“The surest test of discipline is its absence.”

- Clara Barton

"A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."

- Francis Bacon

"I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."

- Hank Aaron

"Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation."

- Jack Nicklaus

"Don't make excuses, make good."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Don't make excuses, make good."

- Elbert Hubbard

“Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.”

- Howard Hughes

"He who rules his spirit has won a greater victory than the taking of a city."

- Jesus Christ

"What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you."

- Seneca

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

- Epictetus