what are those quotes that drive you to give it your best shot in everything?

Question

Please state that quote & by whom

Answer 1

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

Answer 2

Readers Digest gives those as "quotable quotes"
Personally, these quotes don't do a dam thing for me without the role models that wrote them. For me, the best inspriation has always been to look in the mirror and smile : )

Answer 3

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.

Answer 4

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown

Answer 5

All from Mother Teresa of Calcutta:
"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
"Each one of them is Jesus in disguise."
"Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."

Answer 6

The diameter of your knowlege is the circumference of your activity.

Answer 7

"Never apologize for making a better life for yourself." - my first boss, he said it to me the day I quit to leave for college.

Answer 8

"your account is now past due"

--Dayton Power & Light (electric company)

Answer 9

Do not judge yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your abilities.

-Anonymous

Answer 10

"Quitters never win and winners never quit".