It's not where you start but where you finish that counts.

You have within you all the qualities necessary for success.

In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness.

You need to accept the fact that from this moment on, your situation and future is in capable hands - yours.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly, until you can learn to do it well. (Steve Brown)

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Keep trying. It's only from the valley that the mountain seems high.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Don't get discouraged; it is often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders. (George P. Burnham)

The difference between a big shot and a little shot is that a big shot's just a little shot that kept on shooting.

If you're in something, get in it. If you're not in it, get out. (Mama Ziglar)

Imagination is the strongest nation on earth.

The way you get out of a job you don't like is to do so extraordinarily well that nobody can afford to keep you in that position.

You may give out, but never give up. (Mary Crowley)

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not. Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not. The world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence, determination and hard work make the difference. (Calvin Coolidge)

Sometimes in order to see the light you have to risk the dark.

It's supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it good! (Tom Hanks in "A league of their own")

Never under estimate the power of the few to change the world. That's usually how it works. (Margaret Mead)

The mass of men lead lives of quite desperation.

There is a moment when action is more important than theory.

Being content is going round in a circle. Being happy is going in a straight line. (Mark Keeble)

You have to feel the pain. How else do you know that you are pushing your body to the limit!

It is not death that man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life
To put to rout all that was not life
And not, when I come to die, discover that I have not lived
(From the film, Dead Poets Society)

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential
(Winston Churchill)

Start every morning by saying, 'I believe something wonderful is going to happen to me today.'
(Brian Tracy)

When you want something you've never had, you must do something that you've never done.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
(William Butler Yeats)

Don't wait for the perfect moment, it may never happen.

Those who do not move do not notice their chains.
(Rosa Luxemburg)

The pursuit of points is as nothing compared to the pursuit of glory.
(Vulnerable in Hearts, Sandy Balfour)

In life the only real power you have is taking responsibility for it.
(Stone Junction, Jim Dodge)

May your journey have an end.
(Stone Junction, Jim Dodge)

We have been given 86400 seconds. We can't bank them. We can never get them back. We have to use them today. How are we going to spend them? These are the most precious things we have and yet most of us let them slip through our fingers.

Doing your best is the best anyone can do.

Carpe Diem. It won't be repeated.

It's not where you're from; it's where you're going.
It's not what you drive; it's what drives you.
It's not what you think; it's what you know.
(Gatorade commercial)

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.

Somebody is always doing what somebody else said couldn't be done.

Forty: old enough to know how and hungry enough to have a go.