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

- George Marshall

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

- James Arthur Lovell Jr.

"Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail."

- Lester B. Pearson

“The past cannot be cured.”

- Queen Elizabeth I

“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

- Colin Powell

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

- James Allen

“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”

- Albert Pike

“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”

- Douglas MacArthur

"There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men, out of necessity, are forced by circumstances to meet."

- William Frederick Halsey

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed...For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself."

- Georges Clemenceau

"We will accept nothing less than full Victory!"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I believe in plans big enough to meet a situation which we can't possibly foresee now.”

- Harry S. Truman

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.”

- James Allen

“The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured."

- Dean Acheson

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

- Malcolm Muggeridge

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”

- Andrew Jackson quoting Napoleon Bonaparte

"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

- Colin Powell

‎"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat."

- Józef Piłsudski

"There are no secrets to success: Don’t waste time looking for them."

- Colin Powell