"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. " ~ Richard M. DeVos ~
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability." ~ John Wooden ~
"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." ~ Lao Tzu ~
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." ~ Aristotle ~
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." ~ William Faulkner ~
"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..." ~ Francis Bacon, Sr. ~
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them." ~ George Bernard Shaw ~
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success." ~ Norman Vincent Peale ~
"The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." ~ Walter Bagehot ~
"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it." ~ Napoleon Hill ~
"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." ~ St. Francis of Assisi ~
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around." ~ Leo Buscaglia ~
"Keep away from small 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 ~
