"Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation."

Jack Nicklaus

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

Abraham Maslow

"It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between."
-- Diane Ackerman

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now."

-- Goethe

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before we changed."

Earl Nightingale

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

-- John Foster Dulles

"Be mindful of how you approach time. Watching the clock is not the same as watching the sun rise."

-- Sophia Bedford-Pierce

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worth while achievement."

Henry Ford

"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do
every day what should be done, and every sunset will see
you that much nearer the goal."

-- Elbert Hubbard

"When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure."


-- Peter Marshall