Samuel Adams

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks … It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.


Tiger Woods

No matter how good you get you can always get better and that’s the exciting part.
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William Arthur Ward

“If you can imagine it,
You can achieve it.
If you can dream it,
You can become it.”


Louis Untermeyer

From compromise and things half done,
Keep me with stern and stubborn pride,
And when at last the fight is won,
God, keep me still unsatisfied.


Mark Twain

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”


Henry David Thoreau

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.


Henry David Thoreau

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.


Harold Taylor

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”


William Shakespeare

He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome,
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.


Robert L. Schwartz

“The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer… He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.”


George Sand

We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?


Michael Korda

“An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.”


Robert Francis Kennedy

“Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment, ‘Stay, thou art so fair.’”


Robert Francis Kennedy

“We should, I believe, beware of the pitfalls described by Taine: ‘Imagine a man who sets out on a voyage equipped with a pair of spectacles that magnify things to an extraordinary degree. A hair on his hand, a spot on the tablecloth, the shifting fold of a coat, all will attract his attention; at this rate, he will not go far, he will spend his day taking six steps and will never get out of his room.’ We have to get out of this room.”


Langston Hughes

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”


Kahlil Gibran

“Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.”


David Lloyd George

“Don’t be afraid to take a big step. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”


Anatole France

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”


Henry Ford

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”


Brett Favre

It gets to be part of your everyday routine. I expect to be there on Sunday. I expect to be there at practice. I think back to when I first started school in the first grade and how long it seemed to take to go from first through 12th. You figure in ninth grade you’re never going to get out of high school, and you couldn’t wait. Here I am in my 14th year and going on 13 for not missing basically a day of school… Part of it is being able to escape injury, overcome some injuries but also be able to play at a high enough level for so long to still be here doing it. The streak itself doesn’t stand out to me that it’s something I have to continue. As long as I’m a Green Bay Packer, I expect to play. I expect to help this team win and be a tremendous leader. And I expect that to continue until the day I don’t play here anymore.


William Faulkner

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.


Les Brown

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”


William Blake

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”


Anon.

“We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have ‘crossed bridges’ in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.”