• Thought makes things possible. Action makes them real.
• Thought prepares the way for achievement. Action assembles the achievement together. Read more…

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Read more…

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t.
If you would like to win but think you can’t,
It’s almost certain that you won’t. Read more…

To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
-Norman Vincent Peale

Greatness is not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it but sail we must, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

~Oliver Wendall Holmes

• We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
  -Cicero

• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
  -Euripides

• They can because they think they can.
  -Virgil Read more…

• We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory.
  -Cicero

• Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
  -Euripides

• They can because they think they can.
  -Virgil

• Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
  -Thomas Jefferson

• Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
  -Theodore T. Hunger

• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
  -Robert Collier

• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
  -Frank Loyd Wright

• A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
  Elbert Hubbard

• There is only one success–to be able to spend your life in your own way.
  -Christopher Morley

• Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
  -Dennis Waitley

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.
  -Vince Lombardi

• I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody.
  -Herbert Bayard Swope

• Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
  -Josh Billings

• The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
  -Earl of Beaconsfield

• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
  -Evan Esar

• If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
  -Jospeph Addison

• Impatience never commanded success.
  -Edwin H. Chapin

• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
  -Henry W. Longfellow

• To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
  -Shakespeare

• Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
  -Albert Einstein

• Dare to be wise; begin!  He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. -Horace

• To put away aimlessness and weakness, and to begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment; who make all conditions serve them, and who think strongly, attempt fearlessly, and accomplish masterfully.
  -Norman Vincent Peale

• The beginning is the most important part of the work.
  -Plato

• Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.”  (Everything has a small beginning.)
  -Marcus Tullius Cicero

• The greatest achievements were at first and for a time dreams.  The oak sleeps in the acorn.
  -James Allen

• The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
  -Mark Twain

• Whether you think you can or think you can’t you are right
  -Henry Ford

• Be not afraid of life.  Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
  -William James

• Belief that a problem can be solved is essential to its solution.
  -Nicholas Pratt

• Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
  -Robert Collier

• If you think you are beaten, you are.
  If you think you dare not, you don’t.
  If you would like to win but think you can’t,
  It’s almost certain that you won’t.
  Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger woman or man,
  but sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
  -Anonymous

• “Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else.
  It’s the ache in your lungs and the burning in your legs,
  and the voice inside you that yells ‘CAN’T”,
  but you don’t listen.
  You just push harder.
  And then you hear the voice whisper ‘can’.
  And you discover that the person you thought you were is no match for the one you really are.”
  -Author unknown

• “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt”
  -W. Shakespeare

• The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
  -Frank Lloyd Wright

• We tend to get what we expect.
  -Norman Vincent Peale

• When you believe and think I can, you activate your motivation, commitment, confidence, concentration, and excitement, all of which relate directly to achievement.
  -Jerry Lynch

• This I do believe above all, especially in my times of greater discouragement, that I must believe that I must believe in my fellow men that I must believe in myself and I must believe in God if life is to have any meaning.
  -Margaret Chase Smith

• You’ve got to be brave and you’ve got to be bold.  Brave enough to take your chance on your own discriminations what’s right and what’s wrong, what’s good and what’s bad.
  -Robert Frost

• What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;
  Boldness has genius, power  and magic in it.
  -Goethe

• Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid
  -Basil King

• Freedom lies in being bold.
  -Robert Frost

• The key to success is to determine your goal and then act as if it was impossible to fail and it shall be!
  -Dorothea Brande

• Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safer, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
  -Sir Cecil Beaton

• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily.
  Not to dare is to lose oneself.
  -Soren Kierkegaard

• Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
  -Albert Einstein

• Dost thou love life?
  Then do not squander time,
  for that is the stuff life is made of.
  -Benjamin Franklin

• The geat blessing of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
  -Seneca (7 B.C. – 65 A.A.)

• Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
  -La Bruyere

• The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavourable. Favourable conditions never come.
  -C.S. Lewis

• I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
  -John Locke

• It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
  -Henry David Thoreau

• Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.
  -Benjamin Franklin

• Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
  -Henri-Frederic Amiel

• Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind.
  F. Scott Fitzgerald
• I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
  -Confucius

• Determine never to be idle. . . . It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
  -Thomas Jefferson

• You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
  -Henry Ford

• Learn to love good books.  There are treasures in books that all the money of the world cannot buy, but that the poorest labourer can have for nothing.
  -Robert G. Ingersoll

• Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.
  -Paxton Hood

• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hope rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, it is the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas.
  Enthusiasts are fighters. They have fortitude. They have staying qualities.
  Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress. With it there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis.
  -Henry Ford

• If you have a job now, keep it until you find a better one even if it’s driving you crazy. Potential employers are much more likely to hire someone who’s already working.

• You can do anything with enthusiasm.
  -Ron Berman

• When you want something, go back and go back and go back, and don’t take no for an answer. And when rejection comes, don’t take it personally. It goes with the territory. Expose yourself to as much humiliation as you can bear, then go home and go do it all again tomorrow.
  -Betty Furness

• The first and greatest commandment is, Don’t let them scare you.
  -Elmer Davis

• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
  -Albert Einstein

• The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
  -Richard Cech

• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson

• You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references.
  -M. J. Routh

• Doing something is different from thinking about doing something; it is more difficult because it requires more discipline and courage.
  -Nicholas Pratt

• With persistence, eventually doing it becomes second nature.
  -Nicholas Pratt

• Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality . . . that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
  -Orison Swett Marden

• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
  -Author unknown

• Doing something the first time is very hard.
  Doing it the second time is easier.
  -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

• You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided.
  -George S. Patton, Jr.

• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
  -Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Make big decisions in the calm.
  -Dwight D. Eisenhower

• Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades.
  -Mme. Du Deffand

• The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
  -B. R. Haydon

• The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self; to render our consciousness its own light and its own mirror.
  -Frederich Leopold von Hardenberg

• In this world man must either be anvil or hammer.
  -Henry W. Longfellow

• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
  -Immanuel Kant

• Many only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
  -Will Rogers

• Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
  -Sir J. Stephen

• Discontent is the source of all trouble,
  but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
  -Berthold Auerbach

• Slumber not in the tents of your fathers! The world is advancing. Advance with it!
  -Mazzini

• The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.Thomas -Carlyle

• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
  -Henry Ward Beecher

• Remedy your deficiencies,
  and your merits will take care of themselves.
  -Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
  -Marcus Aurelius

• Practice yourself in little things, and thence proceed to greater.
  -Epictetus

• If you have great talents, industry will improve them; If moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies. Nothing is denied to well-directed labor: nothing is ever to be attained without it.
  -Sir Joshua Reynolds

• What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
  -Saint Augustine

• Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.
  -Henry W. Longfellow

• Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
  -Socrates

• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
  -Oliver Goldsmith

• Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind.
  Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
  People grow old by deserting their ideals.
  You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
  In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage, so long are you young.
  -Douglas Mac Arthur

• Aim for the highest.
  -Andrew Carnegie

• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great.
  -Mark Twain

• Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
  -Albert Einstein

• You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
  -Author Unknown

• If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
  -St. Clement of Alexandra

• If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There’s no use being a damn fool about it.
  -W.C. Fields