* People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

* The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot

* There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

* Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

* Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

* Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain

* The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Richard M. DeVos

* Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson

* Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
John Wooden