"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."

-         Abraham Lincoln

“Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness”

-  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day."

-Ancient Proverb

 “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. “

- James Baldwin

"Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability."

- John Wooden

”I do not seek, I find.”

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

 "Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.”

- Buddha

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

”It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

 “A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.”

- General George S. Patton

 “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

- Leonardo da Vinci

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

 “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. “

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”

Henry Ford (1863-1947)

- David Brinkley

-  Henry David Thoreau

"The quality of persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." 

- Napoleon Hill

"Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying.  Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.  Do it!  I say.  Whatever you want to do, do it now!  There are only so many tomorrows."       

- Michael Landon

“Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Constant dripping hollows out a stone. “

- Lucretius

- Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)

”He who limps is still walking. “

- Stanislaw J. Lec

 “Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.”

- Charles Brower

“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.“

- William Ellery Channing

 “Luck is the residue of design.”

- Baseball Hall of Famer Branch Rickey

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

- Semisonic, Closing Time

"People with great vision will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds."

- Albert Einstein

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance."

- Bruce Barton

- Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

- Albert Camus

“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”

- Thomas Edison

"People with great vision will always encounter violent opposition from mediocre minds."

- Albert Einstein

"There is one thing that will keep a man in ignorance and poverty.   That one thing is contempt before investigation."

-         Herbert Spencer

“Do or do not. There is no try.”

- Yoda, character in the movie, The Empire Strikes Back

“Keep getting it wrong until you get it right” 

–        IDEO Corporation, Company Motto

“All things are difficult before they are easy.“

- Thomas Fuller, M.D.

"You will always miss 100% of the shots you never take."

- Hockey Legend, Wayne Gretzky

"I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him."

- Booker T. Washington

“Diligence is the mother of good luck“

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

 “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word -- excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

- Pearl S. Buck

 “The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”

- Benjamin Mays

"Self-responsibility is the first step to self-esteem."

- Nathaniel Branden

 “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours."

- Richard Bach

“Live with an attitude of gratitude”

- Anthony Robbins

“Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

"Pain is Temporary. Quitting is forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

- Charles Caleb Colton

“Happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal or goal.”

- Earl Nightingale

"Success is not forever and failure is never fatal"

-  Don Shula, Hall of Fame NFL Coach

“The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.”

-Zig Ziglar

“Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus.”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“If you see a whole thing- it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.”

- Ursula Le Guin

“Of all the sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.“

- John Greenleaf Whittier

- George Bernard Shaw

“You cannot travel within and stand still without.”

- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconsistencies.

- Kahlil Gibran

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas A. Edison

“This the last of human freedoms--to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose ones own way.”
- Victor Frankl

“We do not sing because we are happy, we are happy because we sing.” 

-  William James

 “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

- John Dryden

“If you can’t feel pain, you can’t feel anything else either.” 

- Judd Hirsch, Ordinary People

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."
- Wilhelm von Humboldt

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much or suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“He that would have the fruit must climb the tree.”

- Thomas Fuller , M.D.

”Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.“

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

“Don’t think you can make up for it (slacking) by working twice as hard tomorrow. If you have it within your power to work twice as hard, why aren’t you doing it now?”

- John Wooden

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”

- Orison Swett Marden

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

Sir Winston Churchill  (1874-1965)

“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. “

- Thomas Arnold Bennett

“Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose should fix their thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear. Only in this way can the thoughts be gathered and focused, and resolution and energy be developed, which being done, there is nothing which may not be accomplished.”

- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Confucius

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be"

- Abraham Lincoln

Thought and character are one, and as character can only manifest and discover itself through environment and circumstance, the outer conditions of a person’s life will always be found to be harmoniously related to his inner state.

- James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”

~ Napoleon Bonaparte

"Every man is an impossibility until he is born."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

-James Allen, As A Man Thinketh

“My Definite Purpose burns all negative thoughts from my mind. I am free of mental weeds.”

-         Jeff David Young

"The most thoroughly wasted of days is that on which one has not laughed"

- Chamfort

 “Let me listen to me and not to them.”

- Gertrude Stein

 “Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” 

- Les Brown

 "All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific."

- Jane Wagner

 “The elevator to success is out of service. But the stairs are always open.“

-         Zig Ziglar

 “By the yard it’s hard; by the inch it’s a cinch.”

- Old Saying

“Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.”

-  Benjamin Franklin

“Realize what you truly want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging for gold."

-         William Moulton Marsden

"We are not limited by our old age; we are liberated by it."

- Stu Mittleman

"Sol Lucet Omnibus"  (The sun shines for everyone)

-         anonymous

“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.”

-         Malcolm Forbes

"Each of us inevitable; each of us limitless; each of us with his or her right upon the earth; each of us allowed the eternal purports of the earth; each of us here as divinely as any is here."

- Walt Whitman

"We have time enough if we will but use it right."

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Whenever you find something getting done, you find a monomaniac with a mission.”
-  Peter Drucker

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. “

- Elbert Hubbard

"You will not be put in a position to lead until your life is worth following."

- Rod Jao, Financially Independent Businessman at Age 19

 “I alone pull the levers of my life. No excuses, no blame. I am 100 percent responsible for where I am today and where I am going tomorrow.”

- Jeff David Young

 “It’s not what others do to keep you down; it’s what you do to keep yourself up.” 

- Chris, African American talk radio caller

“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”

 “A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it... Even if he fails again and again to accomplish his purpose (as he necessarily must until weakness is overcome), the strength of character gained will be the measure of his true success, and this will form a new starting point for future power and triumph.” 

"It was involuntary; they sank my boat."

“A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it... He should make this purpose his supreme duty, and should devote himself to its attainment, not allowing his thoughts to wander away into ephemeral fancies, longings, and imaginings. This is the royal road to self-control and true concentration of thought.”

 “Direction creates time and frees the brain to think creatively and innovatively.”

"The first day that you do not practice a good habit is the first day that you start a bad habit."

"Never mistake activity for accomplishment."

“A journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step.” 

 “With the majority, the bark of thought is allowed to ‘drift’ upon the ocean of life. Aimlessness is a vice, and such drifting must not continue for him who would steer clear of catastrophe and destruction.“

- The Law of Correspondence

“History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.”

“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside you.”

"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

 “Do you respond to life or are you merely reacting to it?”

“You must write for the waste basket.” 

 “You got to taste the sour to appreciate the sweet”. 

"There is nothing like a dream to create the future.  Utopia today, flesh and blood tomorrow."

 “Never, never, never give up.”

"You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when

you feel good." 

"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."

“Every day is a new life to a wise man.”

 “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”

“You see the boats going up in smoke. That means that we cannot leave these shores alive unless we win. We now have no choice- we win or we perish. “

 “Until thought is linked with purpose there is no intelligent accomplishment.” 

 “Following the inmost desires, aspirations, thoughts, by which he allows himself to be dominated a man at last arrives at their fruition and fulfillment in the outer conditions of his life.  The laws of growth and adjustment everywhere obtain.”

“According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly.  Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bumblebee flies anyway.” 

"I will not allow anything external to myself to control me." 

“What changes your life is NOT learning more. What changes your life is making decisions and using your personal power and taking action.” 

“The greatest of all forms of happiness comes as the result of hope of achievement of some yet unattained desire.”

“Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."

 "Just as a gardener cultivates his plot, keeping it free from weeds, and growing the flowers and fruits which he requires, so may a man tend the garden of his mind." 

 “A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth.“

 “I pity those that have nothing in their lives they care about so much that they can hurt like this.” 

“If you're going through Hell, keep going.”

"Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required."

 "Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe."

“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that you’ll do things differently.”