Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

You have to think anyway, so why not think big?  Donald Trump

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. John W. Gardner

The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate. Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.  Wayne Gretzky, Pro Hockey Player

A year from now you will wish you had started today  Karen Lamb

We become what we think about.  Earl Nightingale

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed. Robert Schuller

The best way out is always through.  Robert Frost                                             

Victory belongs to the most persevering. Napoleon Bonaparte  

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. Maya Angelou

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change your thoughts, and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison

You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you  Dale Carnegie

You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures. Charles C. Noble

A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English Proverb

There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard

I have always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific. Lily Tomlin

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in your hours. Sam Ewing

Even if you are on the right rack, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Arthur Godfrey

If you look for the worst in people and expect to find it, you surely will. Abraham Lincoln

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

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. John Wooden

Pessimism never won any battle. Dwight D. Eisenhower

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. Thomas Jefferson

I cannot think of many occasions when a smile is out of place. Charles R. Swindoll, author

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. Rudyard Kipling

If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn't thinking. Gen. George S. Patton

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Helen Keller

People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things. Leonardo da Vinci

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