It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get back up. 

~ Vince Lombardi

We all worry about wasting time, about the years sliding past, about what we intend to do with our lives. We shouldn’t — for there there is a divine irrelevance in the universe that defies calculation. Many men and women win through to a sense of greatness in their lives only by first stumbling and fumbling their way into patterns that gratify them and allow them to utilize their endowments to the maximum.

~ James Michener

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world. 

~ Jane Addams

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith. 

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

 ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Audentes fortuna iuvat (fortune favors the bold). 

~ Virgil