Take the Chance

“Our lives improve only when we take chances- and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

Walter Anderson (1903-1965); American artist

Preparation

“For me, winning isn’t something that happens suddenly on the field when the whistle blows and the crowds roar. Winning is something that builds physically and mentally every day that you train and every night that you dream.”

Emmitt Smith (born 1969); American football player

You can change the world

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.”

Margaret Mead (1902-1978); cultural anthropologist

Failure is not failing

"When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation."

--Dan Pallotta

The Future Belongs to...

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to [their] ideals.”

Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968); 64th US Attorney General

Who stops you?

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand (1905-1982); writer, philosopher

Just Don't Give Up

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.”

Anne Lamott - author, political activist

Sacrifice can be good

“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”

Aisha Tyler (born 1970); American actress and comedian

Think for yourself

“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. ”

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971); French fashion designer

Use Elegance to Persuade

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273); Persian poet, mystic

Do the small deeds

“Each of us can look back upon someone who made a great difference in our lives, someone whose wisdom or simple acts of caring made an impression upon us. In all likelihood it was someone who sought no recognition for their deed other than the joy of knowing that, by their hand, another's life had been made better.”

Stephen M. Wolf (born 1941); American businessman

Never Too Old

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963); writer, theologian, scholar

Life gets Better through Change

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

Jim Rohn (1930-2009); entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker

Do what Matters Most

“Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832); philosopher, scientist, author

Let go of Anger

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”

Buddha

Prepare to do the job right

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); 16th U.S. President

Adversity makes you Stronger

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”

Dolly Parton (born 1946); Singer-songwriter, actress, author, philanthropist

Get a Purpose

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

Mary Shelley (1797-1851); English novelist

No one is Useless

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

Charles Dickens (1812-1870); novelist

Those who get on

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950); playwright, Nobel Prize winner

Being Wrong, is not Wrong

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

Joseph Chilton Pearce (born 1926); American author