“Chance favors only the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur
“Youth is a circumstance you can’t do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.” ~ Rosalynn Carter
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” ~ Michael Jordan
“Paint a masterpiece daily. Always autograph your work with excellence.” ~ Greg Hickman
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” ~ Charles F. Kettering
“Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.” ~ Robert Louis
“To give yourself the best possible chance of playing to your potential, you must prepare for every eventuality. That means practice.” ~ Steve Ballesteros
“To finish first, you must first finish.” ~ Rick Mears
“All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.” ~ Earl Nightingale
“A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.” ~ Anonymous
“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” ~ Stephen Covey
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” ~ Albert Camus
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” ~ Henri Bergson
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” ~ Elbert Hubberd
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.” ~ James Allen
“Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.” ~ Juvenal
“It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.” ~ Queen of Sweeden
“If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.” ~ Heber Grant
“He who stops being better, stops being good.” ~ Oliver Cromwell