"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out."
James Bryant Conant (1893 - 1978)
American chemist and university president

“And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”
Abraham Lincoln

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Rumi (1207–1273)
Persian poet and philosopher

Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
English writer

"Manner is personality - the outward manifestation of one's innate character and attitude toward life."
Emily Post (1872-1960)
American author and etiquette expert

"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
Mary Tyler Moore
American actress and producer

"Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford (1892–1979)
Canadian actress

“In this world, you must be a bit too kind in order to be kind enough.”
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688–1763)
French writer

“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”
E.B. White (1899–1985)
American writer

"The future doesn't just happen—it's shaped by decisions."
Paul Tagliabue (1940 – )
NFL commissioner

"The first rule of holes is that when you're in one, stop digging."
Thomas L. Friedman
New York Times columnist

"Why not? Why not you? Why not now?"
Aslan Heroic
Lion in "The Chronicles of Narnia"

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991)
American writer and illustrator

“On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
English writer, author of "Brave New World

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919)
26th president of the United States

“Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.”
Marian Wright Edelman (1939 – )  
American activist and founder of the Children's Defense Fund

“Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910)
American writer

“The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180)
Roman emperor and philosopher

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”
Ferris Bueller
American student from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”
Louis L'Amour (1908–1988)
American writer

“Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.”
Meryl Streep (1949 – )
American actress and Academy Award winner

“Invest yourself entirely in the here and now.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926 – )  
Vietnamese scholar and activist

"I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow."
Dorothy Dix (1861 - 1951)
at the time of her death, America's highest-paid and most widely read female journalist

"You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward."
Erik Weihenmayer (1968 - )
first blind person to summit Mt. Everest

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear.
Francis Bacon, (1561-1626)
British Philosopher/Essayist/Statesman

"Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn't exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough."
Henry Royce (1863-1933)
English industrialist, co-founder of Rolls-Royce

"Look at a man in the midst of doubt and danger, and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is."
Lucretius (94B.C. - 55B.C.)
Roman poet

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
Og Mandino, 1923-1996
American Motivational Author and Speaker

If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. – Dean Smith, American Basketball Coach

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955,
American Author/Lecturer/Course Developer

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. –
Carl Jung, 1875-1961
Swiss Psychiatrist

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945)
German diarist

"Every failure, obstacle or hardship is an opportunity in disguise. Success in many cases is failure turned inside out."
Mary Kay Ash (1918 - 2001)
American businessperson

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
German poet and dramatist

"We all have ability. The difference is how we use it."
Stevie Wonder (1950 - )
Singer and musician