"The first and most important step toward success is the feeling that
we can succeed."

-- Nelson Boswell

"I think that my sense of humor is the only thing that keeps me sane."

-- Paul Newman

"The dream that is not put into action converts itself into an illusion."

-- Carlos Marin

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

-- Barry Goldwater

"The difference between a stumbling block and a stepping-stone is what you make of it."

-- Croft M. Pentz

"...to retire before an enemy has nothing glorious about it, whereas attack engenders courage even in a coward."

-- Xenophon

"Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever."

-- Horace Mann

"...except in victory we have no deliverance."

-- Xenophon

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."

-- W.H. Murray

"Before success comes in any man's life, he is sure to meet with much temporary defeat, and, perhaps, some failure. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and most logical thing to do is to quit. That is exactly what the majority of men do. More than five hundred of the most successful men this country has ever known, told [me] their greatest success came just one step beyond the point at which defeat had overtaken them."

-- Napoleon Hill

"Successful people get where they are because they possess passion, focus, persistence and they work hard"

-- Richard St. John

"Accept the fact that you can make excuses, or you can make money, but you can't do both."

-- Richard Carlson