"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.”
Ralph Marston

"You just can't beat the person who won't give up."
Babe Ruth

"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
George Bernard Shaw

"No pressure, no diamonds."
Mary Case

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Emile Zola

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, “Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
Anatole France 

"It's not the mountain we conquer-but ourselves."
Sir Edmund Hillary

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
Sun Tzu