A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

David Brink

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Seneca (4 BC-65 AD)

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

Willard Marriott

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Oprah Winfrey