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

- Demosthenes

“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

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.”

- Lee Kuan Yew

“The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.”

- Ivy Baker Priest

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

- Lester B. Pearson

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

- Alice Walker

“The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.”

- Jean-Baptiste André Godin

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

“The past cannot be cured.”

- Queen Elizabeth I

"I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

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

- Colin Powell

“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

- William Cobbett

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”

- Robert Orben

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

- James Allen

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

- Benjamin Disraeli

“Running is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

- Nadine Gordimer

“What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”

- Rosalynn Carter