"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows."
- Aristotle Onassis

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"To laugh often and much, To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
- Les Brown

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
- Oscar Wilde

"Well done is better than well said."
- Benjamin Franklin

"Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
- Robert Browning

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
- Epictetus

"Success is counted sweetest - By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar - Requires sorest need."
- Emily Dickinson

"The toughest thing about being a success is that you've got to keep on being a success."
- Irving Berlin

"Good luck needs no explanation."
- Shirley Temple Black

"They can conquer who believe they can."
- Vergil

"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
- John Keats

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
- Calvin Coolidge

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T. S. Eliot

"He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
- Elbert Hubbard

"I would not fear nor wish my fate, but boldly say each night, tomorrow let my sun his beams display, or in clouds hide them; I have lived today."
- Abraham Crowley

"That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love."
- William Wordsworth

"You gain strength, experience, and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. ... You must do the thing you cannot do."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result."
- Gandhi

"The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse."
- Helen Keller

"Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
- Martin Luther King

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Saint-Exupery

"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
- Dottie Walters

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin

"To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success."
- Anna Pavlova

"For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are those 'it might have been.'"
- John Greenleaf Whittier

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
- Abraham Lincoln

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed."
- Lloyd Jones

"You see things and say, 'Why?,' but I dream things and say, 'Why not?'"
- George Bernard Shaw

"It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left."
- Hubert Humphrey

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
- Thomas Carlyle

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
- Mark Twain

"Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition."
- Terry Josephson

"What we focus on determines what we miss - and what we become."
- Unknown

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
- Oprah Winfrey

"I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect."
- Julius Irving

"Failure is only a temporary situation;
Giving up is what makes it permanent."
- Unknown

"Success, in the end, eclipses all the mistakes along the way."
- Chinese fortune cookie

"An inconvenience rightly viewed becomes an experience
and an experience wrongly viewed becomes an inconvenience."
- Jesse Owens

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
- Albert Einstein