“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

- Norman Cousins

“Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood.”

- Norman Cousins

“There's time enough, but none to spare.”

- Charles W. Chesnutt

“Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.”

- Elbert Hubbard

“The worst cynicism: a belief in luck”

- Joyce Carol Oates

“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”

- William Butler Yeats

“We must overcome the notion that we must be regular...it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.”

- Uta Hagen

"Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned."

- Emily Dickinson

"We will accept nothing less than full Victory!"

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little."

- Sydney Smith

“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”

- Donatien Alphonse François de Sade (Marquis de Sade)

"By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible."

- Mikhail Bakunin

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”

- G.K. Chesterton

"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."

- Maya Angelou

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find resources of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

- Rachel Louise Carson

“Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths—it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.”

- M. Scott Peck

“Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”

- Plato

“There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.”

- Honoré de Balzac

“Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.”

- Katherine Anne Porter

“I dare you to think bigger, to act bigger, and to be bigger. I dare you to think creatively. I dare you to lead and inspire others. I dare you to build character. I dare you to share. And I promise you a richer and more exciting life if you do!”

- William Henry Danforth

"Always do whatever's next."

- George Carlin

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

- Harry S. Truman

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- James Allen

"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."

- Joseph Addison