Buddha - "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

Business Magnates/Extremely Important:
Bill Gates - "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
Mark Zuckerberg - "The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only

strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."
Steve Jobs - "Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on

with improving your other innovations."
Andrew Carnegie - "You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself."
Dale Carnegie - "Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping

stones to success."
John D. Rockefeller - "If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn

paths of accepted success."
J.P. Morgan - "Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther."
Henry Ford - "Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success."
Thomas Edison - "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just

one more time."

Inspirational People:
Mahatma Gandhi - "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Albert Einstein - "You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else."
John Lennon - "You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are."

Walt Disney - "All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You

may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."

Casar Chavez - "We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our

community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their

sakes and for our own."

Terry Fox - "Even if I don't finish, we need others to continue. It's got to keep going without me."

Nelson Mandela - "It always seems impossible until it's done."

William Shakespeare - "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon

them."

Leaders:
John F. Kennedy - "Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly."
"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to

live by them."
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

Franklin D. Roosevelt - "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

Dwight D. Eisenhower - "Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

Winston Churchill - "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Barack Obama - "If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll

make progress."

John Quincy Adams - "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more,

you are a leader."

Philosophers:
Aristotle - "Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through

insensibility but through greatness of mind."

Plato - "The beginning is the most important part of the work."

Confucius - "The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that

will unlock the door to personal excellence."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca - "It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."

Soren Kierkegaard - "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Generals:
Douglas MacArthur - "Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul."

George S. Patton - "Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom."

Ulysses S. Grant - "My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent."

William T. Sherman - "Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to

endure it."

Athletes:
LeBron James - "You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the

time, and I know that."

Kobe Bryant - "If you're afraid to fail, then you're probably going to fail."

Bruce Lee - "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."

Michael Jordan - "I believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - "You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever

forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Bill Russell - "Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory."

Wayne Gretzy - "Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success

and happiness is heavy."

Michael Phelps - "I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and

time into it."

Steve Nash - "Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more

comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself."

Tom Landry - "I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat."

Directors:
George Lucas - "Either do, or do not, there is no try."
Martin Scorsese- "There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard."

Steven Spielberg - "All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that why is takes so long."

Actors:
Leonardo DiCaprio - "If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most

people."

Bryan Cranston - "Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can

have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career."

Johnny Depp - "There's a drive in me that won't allow me to do certain things that are easy."

George Clooney - "The only failure is not to try."

Harrison Ford - "We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

Robert De Niro - "Time goes on. So whatever you're going to do, do it. Do it now. Don't wait."

Al Pacino - "It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart."

Sean Connery - "There's always a new challenge to keep you motivated."

Arnold Schwarzchenegger - "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

Misha Collins - "We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations."

Humphrey Bogart - "Things are never so bad they can't be made worse."

Charlie Chaplin - "Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

John Wayne - "Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway."

James Dean - "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

William Shakespeare - "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon

them."

Marlon Brando - "Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent."

Robert Kennedy - "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small

portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."

Bob Marley - "The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability

to affect those around him positively."

George Bernard Shaw - "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."