"Opportunities are not lost. They are just taken by others."

~Jane Bozarth

“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.”

~Booker T. Washington

"I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest. "

~Venus Williams

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

~Earl Nightingale

"We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know."

~W. H. Auden

"Dream the impossible because dreams do come true."

~Elijah Wood

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

~Saint Augustine

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

~Les Brown