| "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats |
| "Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going." Sam Levenson |
| "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects." Alexis de Tocqueville |
| "The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork." Igor Sikorsky |
| "Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture." Lydia M. Child |
| "Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit." Napoleon Hill |
| "An organisation's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage." Jack Welch |
| "If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty." Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach |
| "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will." Vince Lombardi |
| "The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity." Joshua Waitzkin |
| "Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." Robert H. Schuller |
| "Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." Og Mandino |
| "Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." Mary Kay Ash |
| "In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." Nikos Kazantzakis |
| "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." Albert Einstein |
| "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations." Steve Jobs |
| "Quality is pride of workmanship." W. Edwards Deming |
| "The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today." Elbert Hubbard |
| "I learned that inspiration does not always come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic, striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time." Brenda Ueland |
| "An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory." Ernst F. Schumacher |
| "You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." Jack London |
| "It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important." Michael Crichton |
| "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." Salvador Dalí |
| "Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions." Albert Einstein |
| "You never fail until you stop trying." Albert Einstein |
| "Beside every great success are the seeds of enormous failure. In every failure, there's the opportunity seeds of great success. They're not miles apart. So if they're that close together, and if you're really working, you're always gonna have that likelihood that something's not going to work." Peter Guber |
| "Temporary success can be achieved in spite of lack of other fundamental qualities, but no advancements can be maintained without hard work." William Feather |
| "True inspiration overrides all fears. When you are inspired, you enter a trance state and can accomplish things that you may never have felt capable of doing." Bernie Siegel |
| "We need to reach that happy stage of our development when differences and diversity are not seen as sources of division and distrust, but of strength and inspiration." Josefa Iloilo |
| "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." Thomas A. Edison |
