''It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash. George S. Patton
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
St. Clement of Alexandra
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William B. Sprague
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Samuel Johnson
Fortune favors the brave.
Publius Terence
When the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. - Richard Hooker
He who hesitates is lost.
Proverb
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
Matthew Prior
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Mary Shelley
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Johann Gottfried Von Herder
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore,
is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire