Do or do not. There is no try.

- Yoda

It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

- Anonymous

The will to win is not nearly as important
as the will to prepare to win.

- Bobby Knight

All men die. Few truly live!

- Braveheart

It's not the critic who counts,
Not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled,
Or where the doer of deeds
Could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man in the arena,
Whose face is marred by dust and sweat, and blood,
Who strives valiantly,
Who errs and comes short, again and again.

Who knows the great enthusiasm,
The great devotions,
Who spends himself in a worthy cause.
Who, at best, knows in the end
The triumph of high achievement,
And who, at the worse, if he fails,
At least fails while daring greatly.

So that his peace shall never be with the timid souls
Who know neither victory nor defeat!

- Theodore Roosevelt

Progress has little to do with speed, but much to do with direction.

- Anonymous

There is no giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

- Peter Cohen

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- C. H. Parkhurst

Discipline is remembering what you want.

- David Campbell

You cannot discover new oceans,
unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

- Anonymous

Successful is the person who has lived well,
laughed often and loved much,
who has gained the respect of children,
who leaves the world better than they found it,
who has never lacked the appreciation for the earth's beauty,
who never fails to look for the best in others
or give the best of themselves.

- Adapted from Ralph Waldo Emerson

Its what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

- John Wooden

I never saw a wild thing
sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
without ever having felt sorry for itself.

- D.H. Lawrence