It is necessary to try to always do better than yourself; this task should last as long as life.
-Queen Christina of Sweden
The real fault is to have faults and not to amend them.
-Confucius
The secret of success is keeping to your purpose.
-Benjamin Disraeli
I cannot imagine how anyone can say, "I'm weak" and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character?
-Anne Frank
It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and also a step.
-Johann Wolfgana von Goethe
I do the very best I know how--the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end...I walk slowly but I never walk backwards.
-Abraham Lincoln
You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Whatever you take in your hand to do, remember the goal and you shall never stray.
-Joshua ben-Sira