Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Elbert Hubbard
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Miguel de Cervantes
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown
The straightest road is shortest, but not always easiest.
Norwegian proverbs
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Saint Augustine
It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
Vince Lombardi
Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.
Jim Rohn
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Peter Drucker
You never fail until you stop trying.
Albert Einstein
My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.
Isaac Newton
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.
We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S Lewis