Talent is nice.  Guts are better. - John Monroe

When you walk to the edge of all the light you know and are about to take a step into the darkness beyond, you must believe that one of two things will happen. There will be something solid for you to stand on or you will be taught to fly. - Patrick Overton

Anything is possible, but first you must believe. - John Monroe

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. - Ella Williams

No dreamer is ever too small... no dream is ever too big. - Anonymous

Take pride in how far you have come; keep faith in how far you can go. - Anonymous

Do or do not.  There is no try.  - Yoda

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.  I've lost almost 300 games.  26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed.  I've failed over and over and over again in my life.  And that is why I succeed.  - Michael Jordan

 Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. - Calvin Coolidge

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.  - Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

"Illegitimis nil carborundum."  (Don't let the bastards grind you down.)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems; but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - John Monroe

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.  - Leonardo da Vinci

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.  Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.  Try to be better than yourself.  - William Faulkner

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. - Oscar Wilde

It's the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly.  You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.  - Charles Lindbergh

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill

Be yourself .  Who else is better qualified? - mnb

Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.  You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome.  The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.  - Helen Keller

Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Be the change you wish to see in the world. - Gandhi

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but to skid in sideways, both thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming "Wow!  What a ride!"  - Anonymous

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill

"Audentes Fortuna Juvat." (Fortune favors the bold.)

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.  - Eleanor Roosevelt

I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. - Tom Hopkins

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.  I can choose which it shall be.  Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet.  I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.  - Groucho Marx

I have learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.  - Martha Washington

I no doubt deserve my enemies, but I don't believe I deserve my friends.  - Walt Whitman

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.  - Winston Churchill

I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it.  Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it.  If you do, you'll win -- and if you don't, you won't.  - Bruce Jenner

If a man is called a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.  - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small -- never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.  -  Winston Churchill

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.  - Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating.  The paths to it are not found by made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.  - John Schaar

In the depths of winter, I finally learnt in me there was an invincible summer.  - Albert Camus

Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge. - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Faith is a function of the heart – Mahatma Gandhi

"Cause someone you don't know / Is someone you don't know / Get a firm grip, girl / Before you let go / For every hand extended / Another lies in wait / Keep your eye on that one / Anticipate."  - Ani Difranco, Anticipate

Hold your head high, stick your chest out.  You can make it.  It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes... Keep hope alive.  - Jesse Jackson

The old woman I shall become will be quite different from the woman I am now.  Another I is beginning. – George Sands