"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."

~ Michelangelo

"Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure."

~ Johnnetta Cole

"Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them. And they flew..."

~ Guillaume Apollinaire

"The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little."

~ William Jennings Bryan

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

~ H.D. Thoreau

"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

~ Mark Twain

"Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."

~ Abraham Lincoln

"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential."

~ John Maxwell

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."

~ Ben Stein

"Never give up, never, never give up."

~ Winston Churchill

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination."

~ Tommy Lasorda

"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."

~ Victor Hugo