"There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."

- Jean-Paul Sartre

"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action."

- Frank Tibolt

"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."

- Vincent Van Gogh

‎"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"It isn't what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

- Oscar Levant as Sid Jeffers

Humoresque (1946)

"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."

- Norman Cousins

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Success doesn't come to you, you go to it."

- Marva Collins

"The road leading to a goal does not separate you from the destination; it is essentially a part of it."

- Charles de Lint

“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”

- Frank Zappa

‎"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action."

- John Dewey

"The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death."

- Osho

‎"I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach."

- Charles Dickens

A Christmas Carol, 1843

‎"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."

- Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, 1813

‎"Hidden talent counts for nothing."

- Nero

"When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

- Margaret Chase Smith

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

- Dale Carnegie

"Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning."

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“Until victory always!”

- Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

"Hasta la victoria siempre!"

‎"What you do simply proves what you believe."

- Simon Sinek

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!"

- Horace

“I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.”

- Larry Bird

"Above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning."

- Anthony Trollope

‎"To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat."

- Józef Piłsudski

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”

- Alexander Haig

"Eighty percent of success is showing up."

- Woody Allen