- Albert Einstein

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

Security is mostly a superstition.
It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
- Moliere

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Henry Ward Beecher

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
- George Eliot [George Eliot was the pen name of English novelist Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880)]