“The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” — Terry Josephson, 20th/21st-century motivational author

“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think…” — Lord Byron, 19th-century English poet (from Canto the Third)

“[A]n aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but in the heart itself.” — Robert Louis Stevenson, 19th-century English novelist and adventurer (from “The Amateur Emigrant”)

“All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw, 19th/20th-century Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit

“To know just what has to be done, then to do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” — Sir William Osler

“When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past.” — Unknown

“[T]he tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.” — Benjamin Elijah Mays, 20th-century American educator, president of Morehouse College

“Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.” — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 19th-century English novelist

“The most important part of doctrine is the first two letters.” — David C. Egner

“As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence.”— George Bernard Shaw, 19th/20th-century Anglo-Irish dramatist and wit

“Striving to do better, oft we mar what’s well.” — William Shakespeare, 16th-century English dramatist

“The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going beyond them to the impossible.” — Arthur C. Clarke, 20th-century English science fiction writer

“The more you prepare, the luckier you appear.” — Terry Josephson, 20th/21st-century motivational author

“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.” — Terry Josephson, 20th/21st-century motivational author