“Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.”

- Georges Clemenceau

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

“You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."

- Zig Ziglar

“I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.”

- Martin Luther

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.”

- Carl Sagan

“It isn't sufficient just to want; you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.”

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”

- Shel Silverstein

"Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent."

- Horace Walpole

“Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

- Lord Chesterfield

"Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."

- Albert Camus

"In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them."

- Joyce Brothers

“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.”

- Norman Vincent Peale

“Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.”

- Samuel Johnson

"Remember that life is hard, but when you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you."

- Zig Ziglar

“Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.”

- Dr. George Sheehan

“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”

- William James

"Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure."

- Sydney J. Harris

"It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close."

- Jessie Owens

“The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.”

- André Malraux

"Tests are a gift, and great tests are a great gift; to fail the test is a misfortune, but to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune."

- Lois McMaster Bujold

"Hasten slowly, and without losing heart. Put your work twenty times upon the anvil."

- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux