He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Samuel Smiles

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

Lou Holtz, one of college football’s most successful coaches. He catapulted University of South Carolina’s football team to a level unprecedented in the 107 years of the school history. From zero victory 1999, the team won the Outback Bowl and a place in the final top 20 national poll in just his second year as a coach.

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

from the poem: The Ladder of St. Augustine, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brinkley

Everything you need is already inside. Just do it.

Bill Bowerman (quoted in Nike’s ad for Olympic 2008) thanks Phillip!

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

Maria Robinson

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that’s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Og Mandino

Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

Robert Schuller

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Dr. Joyce Brothers