Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Proverb

He who hesitates is lost.

Guy Finley

The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.

Booker T. Washington

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Albert Schweitzer

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.

Stendhal

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Marcel Proust

Love is space and time measured by the heart.

George S. Patton

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

Arthur C. Clarke

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Henry Ward Beecher

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

St. Clement of Alexandra

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

Thornton Wilder

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Voltaire

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

Aristotle

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

Johann Gottfried

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

RJS

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.

William B. Sprague

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.