Inspiration

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

-- Andre Norton

Chance is always powerful. - Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

-- Ovid

To achieve the impossible, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.

-- Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

-- George Santayana

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

-- Semisonic, Closing Time

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

-- Seneca

... then the world 's mine oyster

-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are...

-- Cat Stevens, from a song lyric

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

-- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

-- Sun Tzu

The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.

-- Colin Wilson

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

-- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball

Do or do not. There is no try.

-- Yoda, character in the movie The Empire Strikes Back

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars

-- Les Brown