“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

— Sir Winston Churchill

“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr. 

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

— Bill Gates

“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”

— Michael Jordan

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.”

— Barbara Bush

“It’s not enough we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.”

— Sir Winston Churchill

“A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.”

— Anonymous

“The road to success runs uphill.”

— Willie Davis

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”

“Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.”

— Anonymous

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”

— Michael J. Fox

“A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.”

— Dutch Proverb 

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.”

— Vince Lombardi

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Live your life so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”

— Will Rogers

“Intelligence without ambitions a bird without wings.”

— Salvador Dali

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”

— Martin Luther King Jr. 

“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

— St. Augustine

“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

— Albert Einstein

“The journey not the arrival matters.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and then leave a trail.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

— John Steinbeck

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”

— Henry Miller

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

— Albert Einstein

“Let us live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”

— Mark Twain

“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.”

— Pat Riley

“The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.”

— George W. Bush

“Never spend your money before you have it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

— Helen Keller

“If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.”

— John F. Kennedy

“You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”

— Mark Twain

“If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.”

— John Wooden

“I wanted to prove that I could, and by the grace of God I did.”

— Pat Day

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”

— Billie Jean King

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

— J.K. Rowling

“A team will always appreciate a great individual if he’s willing to sacrifice for the group.”

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

— Mia Hamm

“You must take your chance.”

— William Shakespeare

“Mentally, the only players who survive in the pros are the ones able to manage all their responsibilities.”

— Tom Brady

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”

— Vincent van Gogh 

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.”

— John Wooden

“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”

— Muhammad Ali

“Please God, let me hit one. I’ll tell everybody you did it.”

— Reggie Jackson

“Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.”

“Be prepared and be honest.”

— John Wooden

“I know it’s not a one man team win or lose.”

— Brett Farve

“The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.”

— Lou Gehrig

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

— Andy Warhol

“If you’re a champion, you have to have it in your heart.”

— Chris Evert

“Anything in life worth having is worth working for.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“First, I prepare. Then I have faith.”

— Joe Namath

“To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.”

— Jerry Rice

“Don’t let the fear of striking out hold you back.”

— Babe Ruth

“Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.”

— W. Clement Stone

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.”

— Arnold Palmer

“If you don’t quit, and don’t cheat, and don’t run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”

— Shelley Long

“I’m going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I’m here.”

— Payne Stewart

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy.”

— Mike Ditka

“Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.”

— Larry Bird

“Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.”

— Phil Jackson

“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.”

— Pat Riley

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”

— Lucille Ball

“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”

— George Burns

“You’re never a loser until you quit trying.”

— Mike Ditka

“To be good, you need to believe in what you’re doing.”

— Billy Crystal

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”

— Confucius

“Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you’re the one who stops yourself.”

— Damon Wayans

“Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.”

— Booker T. Washington

“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If you’re passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.”

— Wanda Sykes

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.”

— Aesop

“Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.”

— Damon Wayans

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

— Aesop

“My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.”

— Nora Ephron

“Adventure is worthwhile.”

— Aesop

“Action is a character.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What you don’t do can be a destructive force.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“The man who moved a mountain was the one who began carrying away small stones.”

— Chinese Proverb

“And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”

— Abraham Lincoln