Every flower must grow through dirt. -- AnonymousWorrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. -- AnonymousPleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -- AristotleWe are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- AristotleMotivation will almost always beat mere talent. -- Norman R. AugustineImagination is the highest kite one can fly. -- Lauren BacallNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. -- James BaldwinI don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille BallThe great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. -- Arnold BennettHaving once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. -- Thomas Arnold BennettBe like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there. -- Josh BillingsHe who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William BlakeAction springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich BonhoefferCharacter may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillip BrooksShoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars -- Les BrownWe got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may. -- Jimmy Buffett, Cowboy in the Jungle (song)Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily DickinsonGenius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas EdisonEverything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labour in freedom. -- Albert EinsteinIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert EinsteinIt is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George EliotA problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke EllingtonDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -- Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. -- Ralph Waldo EmersonNothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. -- Ralph Waldo EmersonVitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott FitzgeraldLife is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. -- Henry FordObstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. -- Henry FordOne of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. -- Henry FordYou can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry FordHe that would have the fruit must climb the tree. -- Thomas Fuller, M.D.We must become the change we want to see. -- GandhiWhatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- GandhiTreat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery calling is great when greatly pursued. -- Oliver Wendell HolmesThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Ellen HubbardMay the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand. -- Irish BlessingKeep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. -- Helen KellerWhen we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. -- Helen KellerThere are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? -- Robert Francis KennedyHe who limps is still walking. -- Stanislaw J. LecWhatever you are, be a good one. -- Abraham LincolnIt's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince LombardiMost of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett MardenWe are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. -- Abraham MaslowVictory belongs to the most persevering. -- Napoleon BonaparteAs for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead. -- Andre NortonChance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- OvidRemember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-HerheyTo achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought. -- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug PerfumeFanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. -- George SantayanaEvery new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. -- Semisonic, Closing TimeIt is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca... then the world 's mine oyster -- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of WindsorCuriosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James StephensIf you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are... -- Cat Stevens, from a song lyricNever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher StoweCan you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can? -- The Artist Formerly Known As PrinceOnce all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. -- Mao Tse-tungOpportunities multiply as they are seized. -- Sun TzuThe mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. -- Colin WilsonSuccess is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern BasketballDo or do not. There is no try. -- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes BackObstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks