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

"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." - Virgil

"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

"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

"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

"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 indefinitely 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

"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

"Be careful whose toes you step on today because they might be connected to the foot that kicks your a$$ (oops!) tomorrow!!" - Brandon Ramos

"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

"If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."  - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) 


"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."  - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 


"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol 


"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."  - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) 


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."  - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) 


"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."  - Mario Andretti