“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 

― Albert Einstein

"The ability to concentrate and use time well is everything.

Lee Iacocca

"Use your talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."

Henry Van Dyke

"Success in life is a matter not so much of talent as of concentration and perseverence."

C.W. Wendte

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."

~Anna Quindlen

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

Thomas Paine

"Progress  always involves risk. You can't steal second base and keep your feet on first."

Frederick B.  Wilcox

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch -- what make you go beyond the norm."--

Cicely Tyson, American actress

"If you afraid for your future, you don't have a present."

James Peterson

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

Dorothea Brande

"To see what is right and not do it is want of courage."

Confucious

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."

Thomas Edison

"Stay away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."

Mark Twain

"One of the greatests discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afriad he couldn't do."

Henry Ford

"At times, knowing when to quit, is an important as refusing to quit.  When an old pattern of thinking or acting isn't serving you, tell yoursself that it's time to let it go and then do it."