Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

If you don't act as if your name were on the door, it never will be.
- Patricia Fripp

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. -Helen Keller

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.
- Epicurs

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising each time we fall.
- Confucius