"Ability is of little account without opportunity."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations."
- William Feather

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
- Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Mahatma Gandhi

“Human potential, though not always apparent, is there waiting to be discovered and invited forth.”
- William W. Purkey

“A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.”
- Alistair Cooke

"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."
- John Wooden

"We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."
- Martha Grimes

"Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment."
- Baltasar Gracian

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be."
- Kahlil Gibran

"All progress occurs because people dare to be different."
- Harry Millner

"There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't fall off unless you stop pedalling.”
- Claude Pepper

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."
- Napoleon Hill

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."
- David Brink

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone."
- Bill Cosby

"The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents."
- Salvador Dali

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
- Josephus Daniels

"Confidence is the hinge on the door to success."
- Mary O'Hare Dumas

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that don’t work."
-Thomas Alva Edison

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert Francis Kennedy

"Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage."
- Charles Luckman

"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."
- Beverly Sills

"The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works."
- William Strong

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."
- Henry David Thoreau

"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The way to succeed is to double your error rate."
- Thomas J. Watson

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."
- George E. Woodberry

“A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner”
- English Proverb

“We must accept finite disappointment but we must never lose infinite hope”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements”
- Mao Tse-Tung

“I learn by going where I have to go”
- Theodore Roethke

“What was hard to bear is sweet to remember”
- Portuguese Proverb

“Quality begins on the inside… and then works its way out”
- Bob Moawad

“Remember, you only have to succeed the last time”
- Brian Tracy

“Self pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness”
- Earl Nightingale

“You do not have to be superhuman to do what you believe in”
- Debbi Fields

“Happiness is not by chance but by choice”
- Jim Rohn

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else”
- Benjamin Franklin

“There is no substitute for hard work”
- Thomas Edison

“Your big opportunity may be right where you are now”
- Napoleon Hill

“The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!”
- Marvin Phillips

“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective”
- Al Neuharth