George Eliot

Failure after long perserverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. - George Eliot

Henry David Thoreau

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. - Henry David Thoreau

Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me, for I intent to write it. - Winston Churchill

Napoleon Hill

A mastermind alliance is built of two or more minds working actively together in perfect harmony toward a common definite object. - Napoleon Hill

Quentin Crisp

Believe in fate, but lean forward where fate can see you. - Quentin Crisp

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagined. - William Blake

Walt Disney

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile. - Walt Disney

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difficulties exist to be surmounted. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Ovid

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish. - Ovid

James Stockdale

The best leaders gain authority by giving it away. - James Stockdale