Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.

-- Lou Holtz

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

-- Philip Gilbert Hamilton

Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

-- William Shakespeare

"Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."

-- Bruce Lee

Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward

-- Og Mandino

We are going to relentlessly chase perfection, knowing full well we will not catch it, because nothing is perfect. But we are going to relentlessly chase it, because in the process we will catch excellence. I am not remotely interested in just being good.

-- Vince Lombardi

Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done,  when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

-- Lao Tzu

We can always find something to be thankful for, and there may be reasons why we ought to be thankful for even those dispensations which appear dark and frowning.

- Albert Barnes

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.

-- Logan Pearsall Smith