| "Success is where preparation and opportunity meet." Bobby Unser |
| "Whenever you fall, pick something up." Oswald Avery |
| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." Thomas A. Edison |
| "Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement." W. Clement Stone |
| "Experience is the teacher of all things." Julius Caesar |
| "An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." Benjamin Franklin |
| "Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz |
| "Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Ashe |
| "Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure." George Edward Woodberry |
| "Success is dependent on effort." Sophocles |
| "Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." Jim Rohn |
| "The starting point of all achievement is desire." Napoleon Hill |
| "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill |
| "It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." Leonardo da Vinci |
| "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." Aristotle |
| "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience." Victoria Holt |
| "Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." Steve Jobs |
| "If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you." Steve Jobs |
| "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great." Zig Ziglar |
| "The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it." Alan Saporta |
| "It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final." Roger Babson |
| "There is no substitute for hard work." Thomas Edison |
| "Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action." Peter F. Drucker |
| "Your dream doesn't have an expiration date. Take a deep breath and try again." Kathy Witten |
| "The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." John Burroughs |
| "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." Orison Swett Marden |
| "I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs, but how high he bounces when he hits bottom." George Patton |
| "Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can." Henry Drummond |
| "A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." Confucius |
| "You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them." Michael Jordan |
