We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do.— Samuel Smiles

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.— Wayne Gretzky

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?— George Eliot

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.— Henry David Thoreau

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed--I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.— Georges Clemenceau

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.— Harold R. McAlindon

What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.— Tom Browne

Hope is the dream of the waking man.— French Proverb

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Failure is blindness to the strategic element in events; success is readiness for instant action when the opportune moment arrives.— Newell D. Hillis

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.— Harriet Tubman

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.— William Shakespeare

One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.— Henry Ford

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.— W.B. Yeats

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.— Patrick Henry

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.— Epictetus