"The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results."

- James Dean

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.”

- John D. Rockefeller

"Every time I fail, I assume I will be a stronger person for it. I keep on running..., because for me there has always been a place to go and a terrible urgency to get there."

- Joan Benoit Samuelson

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy!"

- Billie Jean King

"What you are will show in what you do."

- Thomas Edison

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

- John Paul Jones

Become a 'possibilitarian.' No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem."

- Henry Kissinger

"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."

- Aristotle Onassis

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

- Jim Rohn

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr

"Just go out there and do what you've got to do."

- Martina Navratilova

"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

- Aeschylus

"Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained."

- Stendhal

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

- Billie Jean King

"Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible."

- Mao Tse-tung

"Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Anna Mary Robertson Moses

(Grandma Moses) 

“I realized I had to step up to the responsibilities of my dream.”

- Mark Spitz

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

“Whatever you do, do with all your might”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I prepare myself well. I know what I can do before I go in. I'm always confident."

- Bobby Fischer