“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start at any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford
“It doesn’t matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it’s important to realize that whatever you’re doing, it’s your first attempt at it.” — Wally Amos
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.
“You can choose what you do; you can’t choose what you like to do.” — Gretchen Rubin
“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.” — Flavia
“When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” — Les Brown
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.” — Charles Swindall
“What do you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.” — Gretchen Rubin
“Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.” — J.K. Rowling
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.” — Gretchen Rubin
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” — Bob Goff
“Passion is a critical factor in professional success. People who love their work bring an intensity and enthusiasm that’s impossible to match through sheer diligence.” — Gretchen Rubin
“People do best what comes naturally.” — John F. Kennedy
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”— Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
“Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.” — Dale Carnegie
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” — David Brinkley
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” — Frederick Douglass
“If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” — Tony Robbins
“A ship is always safe at the shore — but that is not what it is built for.” — Albert Einstein
“Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine.” — Mario Fernandez
“Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” — Les Brown
“If I persist long enough I will win.” — Og Mandino
“Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.” — Steve Martin
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” — Albert Einstein
“I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was.” — Muhammad Ali
“I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” — William Ernest Henley
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” — Carol Burnett
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” — Lao Tzu