"Always bear in mind that your own

resolution to succeed is more

important than any other one thing."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."

       -- Andre Malraux

"Destiny is not a matter of chance,

it is a matter of choice;

it is not a thing to be waited for,

it is a thing to be achieved."

- Winston Churchill

 

"To guarantee success, act as

if it were impossible to fail."

- Dorothea Brande

"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and, suddenly, you are doing the impossible"

-Saint Francis of Assi

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

-Benjamin Disraeli

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hold on a minute longer; never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you

run into a wall, don't turn around and

give up. Figure out how to climb it,

go through it, or work around it."

- Michael Jordan

"When life's problems seem

overwhelming, look around and see

what other people are coping with.

You may consider yourself fortunate."

- Ann Landers

"Strength does not come from winning

Your struggles develop your strength.

When you go through hardship

and decide not to surrender,

that is strength."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger