Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz
"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
-Joshua J. Marine
"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." -William Ellery Channing
"A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting."
- Anonymous
"No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big."
- Anonymous
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
The willow knows what the storm does not: that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
- Anonymous
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Anonymous
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
- Seneca
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
- Anonymous
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
- Anonymous
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
