“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

“Thousands of people have talent. I might as well congratulate you for having eyes in your head. The one and only thing that counts is: Do you have staying power?”

Noel Coward (1899–1973) English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer

“Every day you have a choice. Make it count.”

Lauren Manning (1961) American banker

“Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother's prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill.”

Ilya Ehrenburg (1891–1967) Russian-Soviet writer and poet

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American author

“You might not understand, but I gave you the best of me, and after you left, nothing was ever the same.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Best of Me

“Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.”

David Eddings (1931–2009) American novelist

“If it weren't for acid, you might not have an IPod, and you definitely would not have some of the best music in your IPod.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“You have to do what's best for you and what's going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.”

LeBron James (1984) American basketball player

“Then a Voice said: "Behold this day, for it is yours to make. Now you shall stand upon the center of the earth to see, for there they are taking you."”

Black Elk (1863–1950) Oglala Lakota leader