"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings

"Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to
help you do it."

-- W. Clement Stone

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

-- Charles R. Swindoll

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is
also what it takes to sit down and listen."

-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone
wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more
than one night.'"

-- Charles M. Schulz

"Art is the act of navigating without a map."

-- Seth Godin

"The spirited horse, which will of itself strive to win the
race, will run still more swiftly if encouraged."

-- Ovid

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where
you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your
command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

-- George Herbert

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished
when he quits."

-- Richard M. Nixon

"Then give to the world the best you have, and the best will
come back to you."

-- Madeline Bridges

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they
just make the best of everything they have."

-- Anonymous

"It had long since come to my attention that people of
accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if
you're going to go to bed with satisfaction."

-- George Horace Lorimer

"Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according
to the measure of thy desire."

-- Arab proverb

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

-- Richard Nixon

"He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination."

-- Jose Rizal

"When you make a mistake, there are only three things you
should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and do not
repeat it."

-- Paul "Bear" Bryant

"To lead the people, walk behind them."

-- Lao Tzu

"Men are alike in their promises. It is only in their deeds
that they are different."

-- Jean Baptiste Moliere

"Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them
when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they
would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with
men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and
never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their
senses and become mad."

-- Herodotus

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak
out and remove all doubt."

-- Abraham Lincoln