"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
- James B. Conant

“You just can't beat the person who never gives up.”
- Babe Ruth

"Always walk through life as if you have something new to learn and you will." 
- Vernon Howard 

"One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak." 
- G. K. Chesterton

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." 
- Robert Louis Stevenson

"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." 
- Henry Ford

"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
- Samuel Johnson

"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
- George Bernard 

"The truth expressed without kindness or love is as damaging as a lie."
 - Cory Booker

"Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it."
- James Baldwin

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
- Mae West

"Folllow your compass not your clock."
- Andrea Jung

"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross lies your calling." 
- Aristotle

Happy 93rd Birthday, Mr. Mandela!

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."
 - Nelson Mandela

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
- Dalai Lama

"How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world."
- Shakespeare

"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Some people dream of success...while others wake up and work hard for it."
- Unknown

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway." 
- Emory Austin

"The only time you should look in your neighbors bowl is to make sure they have enough."
- Louis CK

"Never allow success to get to your head and never allow failure to get to your heart."
- Unknown

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."
- Rev. Joseph "Run" Simmons

"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
- Leo Aikman

"All the places you are able to reach, you reach first with your imagination."
- Ralph Marston

“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.”
- Albert Einstein

"You learn the value of hard work by working hard."
- Margaret Mead

"When you tell yourself you're not talented, just know there's a moron with self-esteem making tons of money doing something you're better at."
-Erin Gibson

“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
-Sven Goran Eriksson

“It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.”
- Norman Vincent Peale

"Do not let the mistakes of your past limit your goals for your future. Learn from [them] and move forward."
- Rev Al Sharpton