"Great minds have purpose, others have wishes."
Washington Irving

"Lord, grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish."
Michelangelo

"If there is no wind, row."
Latin proverb

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
Basho

"If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it."
Jonathan Winters

"I give to life exactly what I want life to give to me."
Unknown

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you will have to take it."
Antoine de St. Exupery

"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
Disraeli

"Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it never has a beginning."
Cardinal Newman

"You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do."
Henry Ford

"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
Theodore Roosevelt

"There is no try, only do or do not."
Yoda

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."
John Ruskin

"Knowledge might be power, but only when we take action."
Richard Keeves

"You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing."
Haddon Robinson

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."
Unknown

"To know and not to do is not yet to know."
Zen saying

"Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities."
Kemmons Wilson

"There are two ways to climb an oak tree, one way is to sit on an acorn and wait; the other is to climb it."
Kemmons Wilson

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire."
Reggie Leach

"Everyday you waste is one you can never make up."
George Allen

"You may delay. But time will not."
Ben Franklin

"I will find a way or make one."
Hannibal

"Opportunity – Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it."
Unknown

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work – one finished nothing."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Problems are opportunities in work clothes."
Henry J Kaiser

"The harder I work, the luckier I get."
Stephen Leacock

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake

"Find your passion and follow it. That is all the career advice you will ever need."
John C. Maxwell

"Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Einstein

"First, say to yourself what you would be; then do what you have to do."
Epictetus

"If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it."
William Arthur Ward

"Look and you will find it, what is unsought will go undetected."
Sophacles

"Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps."
David Lloyd George

"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well; and doing well whatever you do, without a thought of fame."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way and who will be sharing the adventure with them."
Dennis Waitley

"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."
Benjamin Disraeli

"Our task… is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future."
John F. Kennedy

"Motivation is when your dreams put on work clothes."
Parkes Robinson

"If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking him if there’s anything you can do. Think of something appropriate, and do it."
E.W. Howe

"Well done is better than well said."
Benjamin Franklin

"The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going."
David S. Jordan

"Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen."
Peter Marshall

"What have you done that has made your life better?"
Unknown

"The greatest failure is the failure to try."
William Arthur Ward

"Our lives improve only when we take chances – and the first and most difficult chance we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over eventually if you just sit there. "
Will Rodgers

"It is better to light the candle than to curse the darkness."
Eleanor Roosevelt

" The time is always right to do what is right. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."
James Freeman Clarke

"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."
Joan Welsh

"What if you discovered that you had settled for what life has served up instead of what you really wanted and needed."
Dr. Phil

"The poorest of all men is not the man without a cent but the man without a dream."
Unknown 

"Luck: a loser’s excuse for a winner’s position."
Unknown