"Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you."

- John F. Kennedy

 "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made"

- Groucho Marx

"Success has made failures of many men."

- Cindy Adams 

"What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins. "

- Gene Fowler

"For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will."

- Henri Frederic Amiel

"Dream as if you have forever. Live as if you only have today."

- James Dean

"Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities."

- Aristotle

"Life is the game that must be played."

- Edwin Arlington Robinson

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain

"The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place."

- Louis A. Allen