"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"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
"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
"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
-Cicero
"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"They can conquer who believe they can."
-Vergil
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
-Oscar Wilde
"I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest."
-John Keats
<"Only those who risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go."
-T. S. Eliot
"Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin "He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much."
-Elbert Hubbard
"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
"Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks."
-Dottie Walters
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
-Henry Ford
"Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorius triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
-Theodore Roosevelt
"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
"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
"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
"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
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