"Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail."
Og Mandino

"Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
Albert Einstein

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."
Edward Everett Hale
 

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
 --George Eliot

"A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher though, awakens your own expectations."
Patricia Neal

 
"What is now proven was once only imagined."
William Blake

 
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."
Oliver Wendell Holmes