Eleanor Roosevelt

"A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping stone to the optimist."

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

Thomas Jefferson

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Samuel Johnson

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome."

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Joe Paterno

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

Joe Paterno (1926- )

Ella Fitzgerald

"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)

Raymond Loewy

"I believe most in educated intuition, in what you get through profound experience."

Raymond Loewy (1893-1986)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

William Shakespeare

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt."

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

George Patton

“Historically, good men with poor ships have fared better than poor men with good ships.”

George Patton

Louis Pasteur

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal: my strength lies solely in my tenacity."

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895)

Albert Schweitzer

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."

Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Helen Keller

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Frank Lloyd Wright

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen."

Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959)

Thomas Jefferson

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

B.C. Forbes

"Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs."

B.C. Forbes (1880-1954)