Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.   —Orison Swett Marden

It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are. -Elvis Presley

A life without purpose is a languid, drifting thing; Every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let me make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is naught!  -- Thomas A. Kempis