"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller

‎"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being.”

- Confucius

“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”

- Margaret Fuller

“Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself.”

- John “The Penguin” Bingham

“I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.”

- William Faulkner

"Do not consider painful what is good for you."

- Euripides

"I believe in me more than anything in this world."

- Wilma Rudolph

"I don't know that there are any short cuts to doing a good job."

- Sandra Day O'Connor

‎"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."

- Emil Zátopek

"Whatever man does he must do first in his mind."

- Albert von Szent-Györgyi

"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."

- George Eliot

"There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself."

- Anthony Rapp

"Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world."

-Desmond Tutu

"They can conquer who believe they can."

- Virgil

"Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself..."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."

- Epicurus

“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection”

- Thomas Paine

“We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.”

- Jane Fonda

“Every human action, whether it has become positive or negative, must depend on motivation.”

- Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama

"Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"I just wish people would realise that anything is possible if you try. Dreams are made if people try."

- Terry Fox