December Quotes
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."
-Foster C. McClellan
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes."
-Washington Irving
"The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore."
-Dale Carnegie
"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
-John Quincy Adams
"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen."
-Lee Iacocca
"You have to know you can win. You have to think you can win. You have to feel you can win."
-Sugar Ray Leonard
"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
-Sydney Smith
"The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility."
-Charles F. Kettering
"Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever."
-Samuel Smiles
"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others."
-Orsen Swett Marden