Every artist was first an amateur.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
- Aristotle

Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
-Joann Thomas

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
- William B. Sprague

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future.
- Rabbi Nochem Kaplan

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

If not us, who? If not now, when?
- John F. Kennedy

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein