You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

Never trade what you want most, for what you want in the moment.
-Spencer Kimball 

Have patience with all things, but chiefly, have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
-Saint Francis de Sales 

The only one who can stop me is me ... and I can take her (or him).
-Anonymous

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.
-Earl Nightingale 

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.
-Tony Robbins

Whenever I hear, "it can't be done," I know I'm close to success.
- Michael Flatley