Ability

Do what you can with what you have, where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

George Eliot

What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

Anonymous

Achievement

Achieving starts with believing.

Anonymous

If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

Anonymous

If people knew how hard I have to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

I divide the world into three Classes -
The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Nicholas Murray Butler

If you can conceive it, and you can believe it, then you can achieve it.

Napoleon Hill

Belief

Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief in denying them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Courage

If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.

Dreams

If you grow up ... in the suburbs of anywhere, a dream like this seems kind of vaguely ludicrous and completely unattainable, this moment is directly connected to those childhood imaginings. And for anybody who's on the downside of advantage, and relying purely on courage, it's possible.

Russel Crowe - Best Actor 2001

Education

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary.

Faith

They can because they think they can.

Virgil

If you think you can or think you can't, you're right.

Henry Ford

Goals

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

Happiness

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

Imagination

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Journey

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Chinese Proverb

Knowledge

Knowledge is awareness that fire will burn; wisdom is remembrance of the blister.

Leaders

No man can lead who does not love the people he leads.

Motivation

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Bill Gothard

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well neither does bathing; that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Negativity

Don't be too self-critical. Learn to be on your own side.

Optimism

In the midst of winter, I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.

Power

If the heartbeats for a single day were concentrated into one huge throb of vital power, it might be sufficient to throw a ton of iron 60 meters into the air.

Quit

Too many people have finishing fever.

Risk

The trouble is if you don't risk anything you risk more.

Erica Jong

Self-Discovery

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

The more you understand, the less you have to remember.

Understanding

A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.

Anonymous

Vision

If you don't build castles in the air you won't build anything on the ground.

Winning

An integral part of being a star is having the will to win. All Champions have it.

Yes

Where we are free to act, we are free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say no, we are also able to say yes.

Zeal

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Thomas Fuller