Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. --- William Faulkner

The indispensable first step to getting things you want out of life is this; Decide what you want. --- Ben Stein, actor and author

If you keep believing what you've been believing, you'll keep achieving what you've been achieving. --- Annonymous

You are either the captive or the captain of your thoughts. --- Denis Waitley

What we think or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. --- John Ruskin

Press on. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence ... Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. --- Calvin Coolidge, thirtieth president of the United States

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. --- Orison Swett Marden

We don't have eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here. --- Susan Taylor

Happiness depends upon ourselves. --- Aristotle

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. --- Hellen Keller

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the secrets of success is to refuse to let temporary setbacks defeat us. --- Mary Kay