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

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

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

[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”

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

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

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

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves.  ~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

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