"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

- Winston Churchill

‎"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them."

- Washington Irving

"Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail."

- Bruce Lee

"All you need is twenty seconds of insane courage and, I promise you, something great will come of it."

- Matt Damon as Benjamin Mee

We Bought a Zoo (2011)

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."

- Andrew Carnegie

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

- Thornton Wilder

"Motivation will almost always beat mere talent."

- Norman R. Augustine

"Never relinquish the initiative."

- Charles de Gaulle

"I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious."

- Vince Lombardi

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney

“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.”

- David Livingstone

"Be that self which one truly is."

- Søren Kierkegaard

‎"Tough, Tough, Tough...Tough as Nails!"

- Gabrielle Giffords

“Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.”

- Mary Lou Retton

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”

- St. Jerome

"I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe."

- Abigail Adams

"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."

- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

"I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued."

- Carl Sagan

"You can map out a fight plan or a life plan, but when the action starts, it may not go the way you planned, and you're down to your reflexes - which means your training. That's where your roadwork shows. If you cheated on that in the dark of morning - well, you're getting found out now, under the bright lights."

- Joe Fraizer

“If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.”

- Vince Lombardi

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it"

- Arthur L. Williams

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

- Deepak Chopra 

"Delay is ever fatal to those who are prepared."

- Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan)

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”

- Christian D. Larson