William Halsey

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

"The only real limitation is your imagination."

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right."

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

"The man who has confidence in himself is in favor of confidence in others."

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

"The best revenge is massive success."

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

"Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions."

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude."

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

"What we think, we become."

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

"Don't wait. The time will never be 'just right'."

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them."

"It always seems impossible until it's done."