We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.

--Aristotle

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.

--Voltaire

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

--Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

--Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

--Winston Churchill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

--William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

--Samuel Johnson

Fortune favors the brave.

--Publius Terence