"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

Mary Tyler Moore

"All our dreams can come true- if we have the courage to pursue them."

Walt Disney

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

Robert Collier

"Obstacles are like wild animals. The are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them...they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."

Orison Swett Marden

"It takes time to build a castle."

Irish Proverb

"One today is worth two tomorrows."

Benjamin Franklin

"All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get."

Morarji Desai

Whenever people expend themselves, they want results. They want their sufferings to bear fruit. If this doesn't happen, they're tempted to give up. They'll back off and say, "Well, we tried." But the motive for offering love is not that it be successful. This gift of love Christians have received, they freely give out ...because they are sustained and transformed by mutual sacrificial love.

adapted from John Shea

"No matter how difficult the challenge, when we spread our wings of faith and allow the winds of God's spirit to lift us, no obstacle is too great to overcome."

Roy Lessin

"Learn to smile at every situation. See it as an opportunity to prove your strength and ability."

Joe Brown

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blames someone else."

John Burroughs

"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."

Oscar Wilde

"Bad excuses are worse than none."

Thomas Fuller