Dare and the world always yields. If it beats you sometimes, dare it again and again and it will succumb. - W. M. Thackeray

Few things are impossible in themselves; and it is often for want of will, rather than of means, that man fails to succeed. - La Rocheforcauld

If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. - Joshuas Reynolds

It is Enterprise which builds and improves the world's possessions. Thrift may be the handmaid and nurse of Enterprise. But equally she may not. For the engine which drives Enteprise is not Thrift, but Profit. - John Maynard Keynes