The past cannot be changed.

The future is still in your power.

(Hugh White)

If you have the courage to begin,

you have the courage to succeed.

(David Viscott)

There are no secrets to success.

It is the result of preparation,

hard work, learning from failure.

(Colin Powell)

A year from now

you may wish you had started today.

(Karen Lamb)

It has long since come to my attention

that people of accomplishment

rarely sat back and let things happen to them.

They went out and happened to things.

(Elinor Smith)

Destiny is not

just a matter of chance,

it's a matter of choice;

it's not a thing to be waited for,

it's a thing to be achieved.

(William Jennings Bryan)

We learn wisdom from failure

much more than from success.

We often discover what will do,

by finding out what will not do;

and probably

he who never made a mistake

never made a discovery.

(Samuel Smile)

People are always blaming

their circumstances for what they are.

I don't believe in circumstances.

The people who get on in the 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)

It is not because things are difficult

that we do not dare,

it is because we do not dare,

that they are difficult.

(Seneca)