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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."

Charles R. Swindoll

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

John Wooden

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do…

Abraham Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of love is to listen.

Napoleon Hill

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Martin Luther King, Jr

The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort and convenience, but where the stand in times of challenge and controversy.

Apocalypto

No civilization can be killed unless it is dead from within.

Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Thomas Aquinas

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.