“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future."

- Emma Goldman

“It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever -- the one who recognizes the challenges and does something about it.”

- Vince Lombardi

"I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

- George Eliot

"Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you."

- Ovid

"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"I am here for a purpose..."

"...and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink into a grain of sand.  Henceforth, I will apply all my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy."

- Og Mandino

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

- Harper Lee as Atticus Finch

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation"

- Oscar Wilde

"Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past."

- James Joyce as Stephan Dedalus

Ulysses (1922)

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

- Epictetus

"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music."

- Ronald Wilson Reagan

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

- Alexander the Great

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"To be haunted by past failures or satisfied with past successes is to arrest forward motion."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Larry Bird

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try."

- Jim Rohn

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mohandas "Mahatma" Gandhi

“Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.”

- Adam Smith

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”

- Soren Kierkegaard

"The words you speak become the house you live in."

- Hafez

“There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.”

- Denis Waitley

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

- Helen Keller