What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight–it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: When faced with a challenge, your size is not as important as having a strong and tenacious spirit.

Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Thomas Edison

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Don’t give up now: you are probably closer to success than you think.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Pablo Picasso

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: We learn by doing, not the other way around.

I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.

Muriel Strode

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Rather than following others, do your own thing and let others follow you.

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.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Be brave and take risks rather than living a safe, sheltered life. If you always play it safe, you will probably regret it later.

I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.

Thomas Edison

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Trying and not succeeding is not failure; it is part of the process of discovering what works.

It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.

Vince Lombardi

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Whether you are able to recover from defeat says more about you than whether you are defeated in the first place.

That which doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

INTERPRETATION

Interpretation: Events that hurt you or try you emotionally strengthen you by teaching you lessons and improving your ability to deal with trying times in the future.

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan