The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem
without growing weary.
- Thomas Edison

The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
- Michelangelo

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 - Conrad Hilton

The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
- George S. Patton

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
- Author Unknown

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
- Samuel Johnson

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
- Winston Churchill

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.                                                                                                                                                                - Martin Luther King Jr.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison