"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." -Henry David Thoreau

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work." -Thomas Alva Edison

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” -Sir Winston Churchill

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." -George Washington

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." -Albert Einstein

"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."- Henry David Thoreau

“A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement” -Bo Bennett

“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him” -David Brink

“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.” -Vince Lombardi

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."        -George E. Woodberry

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." -Robert Francis Kennedy

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success." -Mary O'Hare Dumas

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it." -Josephus Daniels

"The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the wins and the losses. Successes have many fathers, failures have none." -Philip Caldwell

 

"They never fail who die in a great cause." -George Gordon Byron

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Sir Winston Churchill

“Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.” -Bo Bennett,

"Recognition is the greatest motivator." -Gerard C. Eakedale

“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” -Leo Rosten

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”-Jim Ryun

“When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” -Hugh White

“The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself.” -Bo Bennett,

"When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."-Hugh White

"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; its when you had everything to do, and you've done it."-Margaret Thatcher

"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away." -Sir Arthur Helps

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." -Lou Holtz

"Every exit is an entry somewhere." -Tom Stoppard

"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses." -Tom Wilson

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”
Henry De Bracton