Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.”  - Fridtjof Nansen

“ Excellence is the gradual result of always wanting to do better.” - Pat Riley

“ Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.”  - Helen Keller

“ For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.” -Theodore Roosevelt

The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

Everything that happens to us leaves some trace behind; everything contributes imperceptibly to make us what we are. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

Thomas Henry Huxley