He who has a reputation for early rising can sleep til noon.
- Alphonse Daudet

Success to me is having the honey dew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
- Barbara Streinsand

Only intensity matters.
- Jean Cocteau

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing.  Making your unknown known is the important thing and keeping the unknown is always beyond you.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
- Alex Noble

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

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making excuses, that's the day you'll start to move to the top.
O.J. Simpson

"They didn't know it was impossible, so they did it." - Mark Twain

"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything -- all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ... Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

~Steve Jobs, Stanford University

Commencement Address 6/2005

If at first you don't succeed, you'll get plenty of advice.
- Anonymous

Success is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Anonymous

You must stoop a little in order to jump.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Trust to that prompting within you; no man ever got above it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even the lonely woodpecker owes his success to the fact that he uses his head.
- Anonymous

He who hesitates is bossed.
- Sonia Chapman

Ability can take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there.
- Anonymous

Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.
- Bette Davis

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
- Margaret Thatcher

It is hard to fail but it even worse never to have tried to succeed.
- Theodore Roosevelt

If you believe in it and you believe in it hard, it will be impossible to fail.
- Ray Kroc