"No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

 - Carl Sagan

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

 - Wallace Wattles

“Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.”

- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed, is more important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"We must always take risks. That is our destiny."

- T.S. Eliot

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

- William Faulkner

"When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective."

- George Marshall

"Do not abuse life. Live in to-day. Be reverent towards each day."

- Romain Rolland

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Here's how I'm going to beat you. I'm going to outwork you. That's it. That's all there is to it.”

- Pat Summitt

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”

- Robert Collier

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions."

- Steve Maraboli

"It's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable and yet...It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems. What's hard is to decide. Most difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent and if you don't give up entirely."

- Robert Downey, Jr.

"To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

- James Arthur Lovell Jr.

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

- Ayn Rand

Hold fast to dreams...

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.

-Langston Hughes

"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."

- William James

“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a true leader.”

- Daisaku Ikeda

"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

 - Hal Borland