"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

“I don't exaggerate - I just remember big”

- Chi-Chi Rodríguez

“Art is not in some far-off place. A work of Art is the expression of a man's whole personality, sensibility and ability.”

- Arthur Miller

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow."

- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"There is no 'what should be', there is only what is.”

- Leonard Alfred Schneider aka Lenny Bruce

"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be."

- Ivo Andrić

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”

- John W. Gardner

“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”

- Ronald David (R. D.) Laing

“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”

- Shana Alexander

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to run just one more mile."

- Thomas Edison

“Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons."

- Miguel de Unamuno

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

- Georges Clemenceau

“If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?”

- T. S. Eliot

“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

- Christopher Reeve

“I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.”

- Ani DiFranco

“The difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination.”

- Tommy Lasorda

“Winning starts with beginning.”

- Robert H. Schuller

“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”

- François de La Rochefoucauld

“When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.”

- D. H. Lawrence

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”

- Arnold Palmer

“If you want to be happy, be.”

- Leo Tolstoy

“Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.”

- Swami Sivananda

"I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive; things are happening."

- Joan Rivers