I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.  ~Allen H. Neuharth

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.  ~Woody Allen

To the question of your life, you are the only answer.  To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert, Advice From A Failure  (Thanks, Elizabeth!)

You’ve got a lot of choices.  If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you’re not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice.  ~Steven D. Woodhull1999 (U.S. geologist, 1976-)

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.  ~Michael Jordan

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.  ~Art Linkletter

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~Thomas Edison

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.  ~Ann Landers

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.  ~Larry BirdCUL

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.  ~Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, originally published anonymously; commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreauquoteinvestigator.com/2011/01/11/what-lies-within, walden.org/Library/Quotations/The_Henry_D._Thoreau_Mis-Quotation_Page, also sometimes worded as what lies ahead of us … what lives within us. (Thanks, Garson O’Toole and walden.org!)

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.  ~Thomas Alva Edison

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.  ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.  ~Attributed to Hanoch McCarty

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.  ~Attributed to Carl Bard

Excellence is not a skill.  It is an attitude.  ~Ralph Marston

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings.  ~C.D. Jackson

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.  ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

The shell must break before the bird can fly.  ~Alfred Tennyson

[S]o you plant your own garden and nourish your own soul instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers…. ~Veronica Shoffstall, “After a While,” as posted in Dear Abbysome sources have “so plant your own garden” and “decorate your own soul” by Veronica A. Shoffstall, 1971, and some call it “Comes the Dawn”

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.  ~Pablo Picasso

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.  ~Max L. Forman

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light.  All other impossibilities are optional.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.  ~Fred Dehner

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.  ~Anthony J. D’Angelo, The College Blue Book

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty!  I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.  ~John Bunyan

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle.  ~Author Unknown

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.  ~Nelson Henderson

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.  ~Henry Ford

Put your future in good hands – your own.  ~Author Unknown

People are like stained-glass windows.  They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.  ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross