"Don’t let your journey be defined by history, let your journey make history." –Bill Cowher
"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give." –Winston Churchill
"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." –Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." –Tobias Wolff
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time." –Thomas Carlyle
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!'" –John F. Kennedy
