"Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day." - A.A. Milne

"Anything looked at closely enough becomes wonderful." - A.R. Ammons

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence." - Abigail Adams

"Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don't want." - Abraham Hicks

"In the end it’s not the years in your life, but rather the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln

"Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

"Good things come to those who wait, but only the leftovers from those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln

"In the end it’s not the years amongst your life, but rather the life amongst your years." - Abraham Lincoln

"I will continue to prepare and someday my chance will come." - Abraham Lincoln

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln

"To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all - but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing." - Abraham Lincoln

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing." - Abraham Lincoln

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality." - Abraham Lincoln

"To believe in things you can see and touch is no belief at all, but to believe in the unseen is a triumph and a blessing." - Abraham Lincoln

"The best thing about the future is it happens one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

"If you plan on being anything less than what you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life." - Abraham Maslow

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety." - Abraham Maslow

"What one can be one must be." - Abraham Maslow

"Striving to be the best can be a mistake. It creates an illusion of an endpoint. Striving to be better shifts the focus from victory to mastery. You’re competing with your past self and raising the bar for your future self." - Adam Grant

"No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted." - Aesop

"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." - Aesop

"If you have no enemy within, the enemy on the outside can do you no harm." - African proverb

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." - African Proverb

"If you are filled with pride then you will have no room for wisdom." - African Proverb

"A small act is worth a million thoughts." - Ai Weiwei

"We don’t go to work for money, we go to work for satisfaction." - Akio Morita

"A good half of the art of living is resilience." - Alain de Botton

"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." - Alan Alda

"A loser is someone who is so afraid of not winning they don’t even try." - Alan Arkin

"When your intention is clear, so is the way." - Alan Cohen

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points." - Alan Kay

"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." - Alan Keightley

"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it." - Alan Perlis

"The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath." - Alan Watts

"You’re not stressed because you’re doing too much; you’re stressed because you’re doing too little of what makes you feel most alive." - Alan Watts

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance." - Alan Watts

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend, for they shall never be broken." - Albert Camus

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present." - Albert Camus

"To know oneself, one should assert oneself." - Albert Camus

"Any fool can know something, the point is to understand it." - Albert Einstein

"The point is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." - Albert Einstein

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein

"If you can’t explain it simply enough you don’t understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." - Albert Einstein

"A mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original shape." - Albert Einstein

"Learning is experience. Everything else is just information." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is the preview of life’s coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

"It is not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"No problem can be solved with the same level of thinking that created it." - Albert Einstein

"Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of a lifelong attempt to acquire it." - Albert Einstein

"Three rules of work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"It’s not that I’m so smart; I just stick with problems longer." - Albert Einstein

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge, but imagination." - Albert Einstein

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change." - Albert Einstein

"Adversity introduces a man to himself." - Albert Einstein

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." - Albert Einstein

"The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule." - Albert Einstein

"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Albert Einstein

"What is popular is not always right and what is right is not always popular." - Albert Einstein

"I have no special talents; I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein

"If we knew what we were doing, we wouldn’t call it research." - Albert Einstein

"Creativity is seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought." - Albert Einstein

"Intellectuals solve problems. Geniuses prevent them." - Albert Einstein

"Imagination is a preview of life’s coming attractions." - Albert Einstein

"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead..." - Albert Einstein

"The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance." - Albert Einstein

"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein

"I think 99 times and find nothing. I stop thinking, swim in silence, and the truth comes to me." - Albert Einstein

"If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then is an empty desk a sign of?." - Albert Einstein

"Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

"What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right." - Albert Einstein

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on others or things. You realize that you control your own destiny." - Albert Ellis

"What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains, and is immortal." - Albert Pike

"True sacrifice is a victory, because it concurs with the highest resolution of our will. A sacrifice is the surrender of something we cherish in favor of something we cannot see." - Albert Schweitzer

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and this is your own self." - Aldous Huxley

"Too many people are emulating the plateau and not the rise." - Alex Hormozi

"If they don’t have what you want, don't listen to what they say. There’s no greater waste of time than justifying your actions to people with a life that you don’t want." - Alex Hormozi

"The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold; they are unmade decisions…as there are decisions you know you need to make and you simply aren’t making them." - Alex Hormozi

"The doing has to get done." - Alex Hormozi

"You don’t become confident by just shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are." - Alex Hormozi

"The goal is not the outcome. The goal is the thing itself." - Alex Hormozi

"If the cost is peace of mind, don’t buy it." - Alex Hormozi

"Your work works more on you, than you work on it." - Alex Hormozi

"The world belongs to those who can continue to work without seeing the result of their work." - Alex Hormozi

"You cannot wish for a strong character and an easy life; each is the price for the other." - Alex Hormozi

"In order to grow, your identity must be whatever it needs to be to grow." - Alex Hormozi

"Are you doing a 10 out of 10 execution on a 2 out of 10 opportunity?." - Alex Hormozi

"Give yourself permission to be an exception, so that you can become exceptional." - Alex Hormozi

"A lot of people wait for the perfect condition to start, not realizing that starting is the perfect condition." - Alex Hormozi

"Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination. ." - Alex Trebek

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Preparation is the key to success." - Alexander Graham Bell

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything." - Alexander Hamilton

"Nothing is impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

"There is nothing impossible to him who will try." - Alexander the Great

"I do not steal victory." - Alexander the Great

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." - Alexis Carrel

"Don't confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but doesn't make any progress." - Alfred A. Montapert

"Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the actions you take." - Alfred A. Montapert

"I am grateful to the idea that has used me." - Alfred Adler

"The shell must break before the bird can fly." - Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Ideas won’t keep; something must be done about them." - Alfred North Whitehead

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." - Alice Walker

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses." - Alphonse Karr

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." - Alphonse Karr

"The illiterate of the 21st century will be those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

"A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees." - Amelia Earhart

"The most difficult decision is to act; the rest is purely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself." - Amelia Earhart

"Use your fear...it can take you to the place where you store your courage." - Amelia Earhart

"If you are going somewhere take all of you there." - Amit Kalantri

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe." - Anatole France

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you don’t turn the page on the last one." - Ancient Proverb

"Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward." - Anderson Silva

"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." - André Malraux

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." - Andrew Carnegie

"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results." - Andrew Carnegie

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents." - Andrew Carnegie

"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself." - Andrew Murphy

"Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice." - Andy Andrews

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol

"Enthusiasm is common. Endurance is rare." - Angela Duckworth

"Gritty people train at the edge of their comfort zone." - Angela Duckworth

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living, because regret is stronger than gratitude." - Anne Frank

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

"The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands." - Anne Frank

"I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains." - Anne Frank

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including yourself." - Anne Lamott

"In wisdom gathered over time, I have found that every experience is a form of exploration." - Ansel Adams

"Pay attention to your enemies; they point out your mistakes." - Antisthenes

"If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, not the goal." - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like." - Anton Chekhov

"Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice." - Anton Chekhov

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle

"Those that know, do. Those that then understand, teach." - Aristotle

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." - Aristotle

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle

"Excellence is never an accident. It is the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny." - Aristotle

"Mark of an educated mind: entertain thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." - Aristotle

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do." - Aristotle

"Quality is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle

"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action." - Aristotle

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival." - Aristotle

"Our limitations are self-imposed. What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do." - Aristotle

"Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all." - Aristotle

"Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation." - Aristotle

"Success is simple. Do what’s right, the right way, at the right time." - Arnold H. Glasow

"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied." - Arnold H. Glasow

"Improvement begins with I." - Arnold H. Glasow

"A great leader takes a little more than their share of the blame, a little less than their share of the credit." - Arnold H. Glasow

"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." - Arnold H. Glasow

"The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it." - Arnold H. Glasow

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire." - Arnold H. Glasow

"You can have excuses or results; you can’t have both." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Trust yourself…dig deep down and ask yourself who you want to be? Not what, but who?." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"The wolf on the hill is not as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation." - Arthur Ashe

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe

"Fear isn’t an excuse to come to a standstill. It’s the impetus to step up and strike." - Arthur Ashe

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight." - Arthur C. Clarke

"Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough." - Arthur Freed

"A person of genius sees connections where others see only random events." - Arthur Koestler

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see…Therefore, the problem is not so much, to see what nobody has yet seen, but rather to think concerning that which everybody sees, but what nobody has yet thought." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Ordinary people think merely of spending time. Great people think of using it." - Arthur Schopenhauer

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." - Audre Lorde

"Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye." - Austin O’Malley

"Life’s a game made for everyone and love is the prize." - Avicii (Tim Bergling)

"I tried carrying the weight of the world, but I only have two hands." - Avicii (Tim Bergling)

"The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you." - B.B. King

"If I fall, let me fall. The one I become will catch me." - Baal Shem Tov

"Don't let the fear of striking out prevent you from swinging." - Babe Ruth

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up." - Babe Ruth

"Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit." - Baltasar Gracián

"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing." - Barry Finlay

"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own." - Ben Sweetland

"Nothing can resist a human will, that will stake even its existence on the extent of its purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Never complain, never explain." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose." - Benjamin Disraeli

"Through perseverance, many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli

"The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities." - Benjamin E. Mays

"He that lives only on hope will die fasting." - Benjamin Franklin

"You may delay, but time will not." - Benjamin Franklin

"Failing to prepare is like preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

"Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn." - Benjamin Franklin

"An investment in knowledge pays the best dividends." - Benjamin Franklin

"The early morning has gold in its mouth." - Benjamin Franklin

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." - Benjamin Franklin

"A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." - Benjamin Franklin

"A man who is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else." - Benjamin Franklin

"Be at war with your vices: at peace with your neighbors; and let every new year find you a better person." - Benjamin Franklin

"To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions." - Benjamin Franklin

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin

"Energy and persistence conquer all things." - Benjamin Franklin

"Early to bed and early to rise makes one healthy, wealthy, and wise." - Benjamin Franklin

"What one does after a mistake, is more important than the original error." - Benjamin Franklin

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." - Benjamin Franklin

"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances." - Benjamin Franklin

"The eye of the expert will do more work than both his hands." - Benjamin Franklin

"Honesty is the best policy." - Benjamin Franklin

"Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight." - Benjamin Franklin

"The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach." - Benjamin Mays

"When you do forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." - Bernard Meltzer

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are." - Bernice Johnson Reagon

"The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation." - Bertrand Russell

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." - Bertrand Russell

"The key to life is accepting challenges." - Bette Davis

"Those who commit to nothing are distracted by everything." - Bhagavad Gita

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in." - Bill Bradley

"The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score." - Bill Copeland

"Storms draw something out of us that calm seas do not." - Bill Hybels

"Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory." - Bill Russell

"Pressure is a privilege." - Billie Jean King

"Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure." - Billie Jean King

"Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has." - Billy Graham

"If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose." - Bishop T.D. Jakes

"All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its reasons, which reason knows nothing of." - Blaise Pascal

"The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts." - Blaise Pascal

"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first." - Blaise Pascal

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement." - Bo Bennett

"You're right from your side, I'm right from mine. We're both just one too many mornings, and a thousand miles behind." - Bob Dylan

"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." - Bob Marley

"None but ourselves can free our minds." - Bob Marley

"Some people feel the rain, and others just get wet." - Bob Marley

"The truth is everyone is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for." - Bob Marley

"True friends are like stars; you can only recognize them when it’s dark around you." - Bob Marley

"Judge not, before you judge yourself." - Bob Marley

"Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the result." - Bob Proctor

"The will is a mental faculty that gives you the ability to intentionally focus." - Bob Proctor

"You hear with your ears, but you listen with your emotions." - Bob Proctor

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal." - Bob Proctor

"Way down deep inside of you is a dream, and every now and then that dream floats to the surface of your conscious mind; and when it does you quickly push it out and say, I can’t do that; Now the truth is you can—you just don’t know how!." - Bob Proctor

"We’re not made for work, work’s made for us." - Bob Proctor

"To learn you need a certain level of confidence; if you have too little, you’ll think you can’t learn and if you have too much, you’ll think you don’t have to." - Bob Proctor

"You’ll never receive the good you desire if you’re not prepared for it." - Bob Proctor

"You’ve got to see yourself already there, not just working towards it.  Otherwise you won’t really know what you’re working towards." - Bob Proctor

"Most people set a goal and then wait for it to happen." - Bob Proctor

"Thoughts become things. If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand." - Bob Proctor

"We are only limited by weakness of attention and poverty of imagination." - Bob Proctor

"There are only two things you have to know to live your dream; know where you are and where you're going - then move in that direction." - Bob Proctor

"Results always tell an interesting story; they tell the truth." - Bob Proctor

"You should never be satisfied with what you’ve got, you should be happy with it, but striving for more." - Bob Proctor

"Goals are not for getting. Goals are for growing." - Bob Proctor

"The will to succeed is important, but what’s more important is the will to prepare." - Bobby Knight

"Success is where preparation meets opportunity." - Bobby Unser

"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has had to overcome while trying to succeed." - Booker T. Washington

"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon." - Booker T. Washington

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else." - Booker T. Washington

"Intention is one of the most powerful forces there is." - Brenna Yovanoff

"The capacity to learn is a gift. The ability to learn is a skill. The willingness to learn is a choice." - Brian Herbert

"The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear." - Brian Tracy

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you." - Brian Tracy

"I cannot control what happens to me, but I can control my attitude toward what happens to me, and in that, I will be mastering change, rather than allowing it to master me." - Brian Tracy

"The key to success is to be flexible, adaptable and willing to change." - Brian Tracy

"Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes mediocrity." - Brian Tracy

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

"It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential." - Bruce Lee

"Patience is not passive, on the contrary, it is concentrated strength." - Bruce Lee

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee

"Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one." - Bruce Lee

"Don't fear failure — for not failure, but low aim is the crime. In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail." - Bruce Lee

"If you love life, don’t waste time for time is what life’s made of." - Bruce Lee

"When you say that something is impossible, you have made it impossible." - Bruce Lee

"To hell with circumstances. I create opportunities." - Bruce Lee

"The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity." - Bruce Lee

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be." - Bruce Lee

"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." - Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it." - Bruce Lee

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." - Bruce Lee

"It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials." - Bruce Lee

"Always be yourself-express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it." - Bruce Lee

"Remember, no man is defeated unless he is discouraged." - Bruce Lee

"The only way to deal with this life meaningfully is to find the courage to better yourself." - Bruce Lee

"You can’t start a fire, without a spark." - Bruce Springsteen

"Only in stillness does the imperceivable become discernible." - Bryant McGill

"If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path." - Buddha

"Your work is to discover your world and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it." - Buddha

"You can only lose what you cling to." - Buddha

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." - Buddha

"Each morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most." - Buddha

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes." - Buddha

"To accept is easy. To continue is difficult." - Buddha

"When the student is ready, the master appears." - Buddha

"Do not dwell on the past, do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present." - Buddha

"Change is not painful, only the resistance to change is." - Buddha

"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." - Buddha

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth." - Buddha

"Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds." - Buddha

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path." - Buddha

"Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts." - Buddha

"Be where you are; otherwise, you will miss your life." - Buddha

"What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create." - Buddha

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without." - Buddha

"What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now." - Buddha

"To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha

"Every great player has learned the two Cs: how to Concentrate and how to maintain Composure." - Byron Nelson

"New beginnings are available to all of us over fifty times a year; they are called Mondays." - Byron Pulsifer

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." - C.S. Lewis

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change." - C.S. Lewis

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - C.S. Lewis

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever one does, whoever one is." - C.S. Lewis

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." - C.S. Lewis

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither." - C.S. Lewis

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis

"When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place." - C.S. Lewis

"Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come." - C.S. Lewis

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." - Calvin Coolidge

"There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work." - Calvin Coolidge

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely, but the privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

"I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung

"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them." - Carl Jung

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." - Carl Jung

"What we lack is intensity of life." - Carl Jung

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." - Carl Jung

"No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell." - Carl Jung

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also." - Carl Jung

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung

"We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life." - Carl Jung

"What you resist, persists." - Carl Jung

"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order." - Carl Jung

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - Carl Jung

"In each of us there is another whom we do not know." - Carl Jung

"I am what I choose to become." - Carl Jung

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart." - Carl Jung

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." - Carl Jung

"Follow that will and that which experience confirms to be your own." - Carl Jung

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." - Carl Jung

"The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me." - Carl Jung

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, it is then that I can change." - Carl Rogers

"The good life is a process, not a state of being." - Carl Rogers

"Do not judge everyone else by your own limited experience." - Carl Sagan

"He who hesitates is lost." - Cato

"I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid." - Cato the Younger

"When the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may be that they take better care of it there." - Cecil Selig

"There is nowhere to go but on." - Celeste Ng

"We do not remember days, we remember moments." - Cesare Pavese

"Whatever you are going through is happening to you on purpose, in order to forge you into the person that you were created to be. If you quit, you will never get to be that person." - Chad Wright

"I will serve with honor. Honor is the adherence to what is right. Uncompromising integrity is my standard. And integrity is having honor when no one is looking." - Chad Wright

"If you don’t miss the standard every once in a while, your standards are too low." - Chad Wright

"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - Charles Baudelaire

"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?." - Charles Bukowski

"It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom." - Charles Caleb Colton

"The present time has one advantage over every other; it is our own." - Charles Caleb Colton

"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it." - Charles Caleb Colton

"Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown." - Charles de Gaulle

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many. Not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some." - Charles Dickens

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but I hope, into a better shape." - Charles Dickens

"No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm." - Charles Kettering

"You cannot have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - Charles Kettering

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles R. Swindoll

"Life is 10% what happens to you, 90% what you do about it." - Charles R. Swindoll

"The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail." - Charles R. Swindoll

"Hope itself is like a star - not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity." - Charles Spurgeon

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." - Charles Spurgeon

"If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company." - Charles Spurgeon

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark." - Charles Spurgeon

"It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness." - Charles Spurgeon

"There’s time enough, but none to spare." - Charles W. Chesnutt

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still." - Chinese Proverb

"No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun." - Chinese Proverb

"He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived." - Chinese Proverb

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." - Christian D. Larson

"Happiness is not real unless shared." - Christopher McCandless

"Once you choose hope, anything’s possible." - Christopher Reeve

"There is no finish line. When you reach one goal, find a new one." - Chuck Norris

"It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from Peace." - Chuck Palahniuk

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up." - Chuck Yeager

"One can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown." - Claude Bernard

"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude." - Colin Powell

"A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work." - Colin Powell

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters." - Colin Powell

"The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." - Colin R. Davis

"G.I.G.O. = Garbage In, Garbage Out." - Common Proverb

"This too shall pass." - Common Proverb

"To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short." - Confucius

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones." - Confucius

"The person who has all the answers hasn’t been asked all the questions." - Confucius

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius

"Worry not that no one knows you, but instead seek to be worth knowing." - Confucius

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated." - Confucius

"It's better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness." - Confucius

"It doesn’t matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"It doesn’t matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop." - Confucius

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." - Confucius

"He who conquers himself is among the greatest of warriors." - Confucius

"The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence." - Confucius

"Learning without thinking is useless; thinking without learning is dangerous." - Confucius

"All people are the same; only their habits differ." - Confucius

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand." - Confucius

"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior." - Confucius

"Learning without reflection is a waste. Reflecting without learning is dangerous." - Confucius

"When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." - Confucius

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." - Confucius

"My success isn't a result of arrogance - it's a result of belief." - Conor McGregor

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward." - Conrad Hall

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden." - Cormac McCarthy

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

"Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation." - D. Elton Trueblood

"Stars can't shine without darkness." - D.H. Sidebottom

"The longest journey is the journey inward." - Dag Hammarskjöld

"The determination to win is the better part of winning." - Daisaku Ikeda

"Many live as if they will never die, and many die having never lived." - Dalai Lama

"Many live as if they will never die, and many die having never lived." - Dalai Lama

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation." - Dalai Lama

"With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world." - Dalai Lama

"Let go of negative people. They only show up to share complaints, problems, disastrous stories, fear, and judgment on others. If somebody is looking for a bin to throw all their trash into, make sure it’s not in your mind." - Dalai Lama

"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." - Dalai Lama

"Being aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else. ." - Dalai Lama

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." - Dalai Lama

"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace." - Dalai Lama

"Remember, that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." - Dalai Lama

"Choose to be optimistic. It feels better." - Dalai Lama

"Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment." - Dale Carnegie

"Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage." - Dale Carnegie

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." - Dale Carnegie

"Most of the important things in the world... accomplished by people who kept on trying." - Dale Carnegie

"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get." - Dale Carnegie

"Do not give up goals just to meet behaviors, but rather be willing to give up behaviors in order to meet goals." - Damon West

"God doesn’t set bushes on fire anymore; he sets people on fire." - Damon West

"God said time; Time belongs to me; Time’s my secret weapon; My final advantage." - Dan Bern

"Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter." - Dan Reeves

"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge." - Daniel J. Boorstin

"There are no miracles, there is only discipline." - Danielle Steele

"The only way to handle pressure is to apply it." - Darrelle Revis

"The greatest enemy is not found on the outside; destruction often comes from within." - Date Masamune

"It's not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time." - David Allan Coe

"A successful man lays a foundation with bricks others throw at him." - David Brinkley

"A Secret is just a painless lie, and a lie is just the truth until you open your eyes." - David Falcone

"Don’t stop when you’re tired. Stop when you’re done!." - David Goggins

"Chaos can and will descend without warning." - David Goggins

"You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity." - David Goggins

"Climb that mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you." - David McCullough Jr.

"Climb the mountain so that you can see the world, not so the world can see you." - David McCullough Jr.

"All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is small." - David Schwartz

"Self-confidence is the memory of success." - David Storey

"What has been is no more. Change has come." - Dean Koontz

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life." - Deborah Day

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra

"Life always gives you plenty of time to do what you want to do if you stay in the present moment." - Deepak Chopra

"When you blame and criticize others you are avoiding some truth about yourself." - Deepak Chopra

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." - Deepak Chopra

"The most complicated skill is to be simple." - Dejan Stojanovic

"It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not." - Denis Waitley

"You must welcome change as a rule, but not as your ruler." - Denis Waitley

"Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory." - Denis Waitley

"Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned." - Denis Waitley

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them." - Denis Waitley

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don’t recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted." - Denis Waitley

"Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised." - Denis Waitley

"The results you achieve are in direct proportion to the effort you applied." - Denis Waitley

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself." - Desiderius Erasmus

"Don’t raise your voice. Improve your argument." - Desmond Tutu

"Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness." - Desmond Tutu

"It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Even if you stumble and fall down, it does not mean you have chosen the wrong path." - Dogen

"Storms make trees take deeper roots." - Dolly Parton

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one." - Dolly Parton

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

"What you can see you can be." - Don McPherson

"The start is what stops most people." - Don Shula

"The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination." - Don Williams Jr.

"The reason people blame things on the previous generation..." - Doug Larson

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." - Doug Larson

"The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don’t even know you’re making." - Douglas Adams

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." - Douglas Adams

"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity." - Douglas Adams

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." - Douglas MacArthur

"There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity." - Douglas MacArthur

"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment, until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the one who'll decide where to go." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Only you can control your future." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It is not." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"Sometimes we will not know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory." - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

"In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us." - E. T. Bell

"Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day." - E.B. White

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time is going to pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale

"All of us are self made, but only the successful are willing to admit it." - Earl Nightingale

"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts." - Earl Nightingale

"A person is successful if: They know where they are, they know where they are going, and they are progressively moving in that direction." - Earl Nightingale

"Your attitude towards life determines the attitude that life has towards you." - Earl Nightingale

"People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going." - Earl Nightingale

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal." - Earl Nightingale

"To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." - Ecclesiastes 3:1

"Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life." - Eckhart Tolle

"Awareness is the greatest agent for change. ." - Eckhart Tolle

"Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there.'." - Eckhart Tolle

"In life we don’t get our goals, we get our standards." - Ed Mylett

"Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast—you also miss the sense of where you are going and why." - Eddie Cantor

"Stupidity is a talent for misconception." - Edgar Allan Poe

"A lie has speed, but truth has endurance." - Edgar J. Mohn

"The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep." - Edgar Watson Howe

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little." - Edmund Burke

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." - Edmund Burke

"I will come again and conquer you because as a mountain you can't grow, but as a human, I can." - Edmund Hillary

"It is not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves." - Edmund Hillary

"No two persons ever read the same book." - Edmund Wilson

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." - Edsger Dijkstra

"There are some things one would rather have done than do." - Edward Abbey

"We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us." - Edward B. Lewis

"It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore." - Edward de Bono

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Edward Everett Hale

"The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators." - Edward Gibbon

"True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing." - Edward Porter Humphrey

"Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness." - Edward Stanley

"Procrastination is the thief of time." - Edward Young

"My soul lives many lives. Each life a thought, each thought a life. I am but my thoughts." - Edwin Leibfreed

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." - Edwin Louis Cole

"There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Elbert Hubbard

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." - Elbert Hubbard

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success." - Elbert Hubbard

"We do not get paid for having a head and hands but for using them." - Elbert Hubbard

"Work to become, not to acquire." - Elbert Hubbard

"Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time." - Elbert Hubbard

"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words." - Elbert Hubbard

"Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ." - Elbert Hubbard

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today." - Elbert Hubbard

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive." - Elbert Hubbard

"It does not take much strength to do most things, but it does require great strength to decide on what to do." - Elbert Hubbard

"Learn from the mistakes of others. Life’s too short to make them all yourself." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul." - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them." - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel." - Eloise Ristad

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Émile Zola

"Forever is composed of nows." - Emily Dickinson

"That it will not come again is what makes life sweet." - Emily Dickinson

"If you had one opportunity to seize everything you ever wanted, would you capture it or just let it slip by?." - Eminem

"We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential." - Emmitt Smith

"All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain." - Epictetus

"Don’t explain your philosophy, embody it." - Epictetus

"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus

"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." - Epictetus

"You cannot hope to make progress in areas where you have taken no action." - Epictetus

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do." - Epictetus

"If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your integrity. If you need a witness, be your own." - Epictetus

"All of life is to Persist and resist." - Epictetus

"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens." - Epictetus

"If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation." - Epictetus

"He is wise who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has." - Epictetus

"Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths." - Epictetus

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." - Epictetus

"You become what you give your attention to." - Epictetus

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it." - Epictetus

"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are." - Epictetus

"If you wish to be a writer, write." - Epictetus

"People are disturbed not by things, but by the view they take of them." - Epictetus

"To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, Even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable or easy." - Epictetus

"No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind. If you tell me you desire a fig, I answer you there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen." - Epictetus

"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly." - Epictetus

"To learn, you need a certain degree of confidence: not too much, not too little." - Eric Hoffer

"In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer

"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others, but also with ourselves." - Eric Hoffer

"Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many." - Eric Hoffer

"The greatest weariness comes from work not yet done." - Eric Hoffer

"In times of change, the learners will inherit the earth." - Eric Hoffer

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places." - Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end." - Ernest Hemingway

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure." - Ernest Hemingway

"Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is." - Ernest Hemingway

"Never confuse movement with action." - Ernest Hemingway

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what they think into it." - Ernest Holmes

"You’re gonna win and lose games at practice. There’s no such thing as a game day player." - Ernie Adams

"Don’t fight a battle if there's nothing to be gained by winning it." - Erwin Rommel

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it." - Estée Lauder

"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing." - Euripides

"Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right." - Ezra T. Benson

"Our lives are defined by opportunities. Even the ones we miss." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be..." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs." - Farrah Gray

"A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it." - Fausto Cercignani

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire." - Ferdinand Foch

"The will to conquer is the first condition of victory." - Ferdinand Foch

"He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him." - Flemish Proverb

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse." - Florence Nightingale

"Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means." - Frances Hutcheson

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power." - Francis Bacon

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake." - Francis Bacon

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." - Francis Bacon

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present." - Francis Bacon

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." - Francis Bacon

"All rising to a great place is by a winding stair." - Francis Bacon

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

"Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible." - Francis of Assisi

"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - François de La Rochefoucauld

"How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves?." - François de La Rochefoucauld

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." - Frank Herbert

"Work Hard in silence. Let success be your noise." - Frank Ocean

"The mind is like a parachute. It only works when it’s open." - Frank Zappa

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The barrier to success is not something which exists in the real world; it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Power is the prize of responsibility; Accountability is its price." - Fred Kofman

"Simplicity is the final achievement." - Frederic Chopin

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder." - Frederick Douglass

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick Douglass

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done." - Frederick Douglass

"It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation." - Frederick W. Robertson

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature." - Freya Stark

"At the end of the day we can endure much more than we think we can." - Frida Kahlo

"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Do what only you can do. Be the master and the sculptor of yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"What does not kill me makes me stronger." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"One man runs to his neighbor to seek himself, and another to lose himself. The lack of love for thyself leads to a prison amongst thine own solitude." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Many are stubborn in the pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in the pursuit of the goal." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Love is not consolation. It is light." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"You are never destroyed by anyone but yourself." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Happy is he who learns to bear what he cannot change." - Friedrich Schiller

"If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for." - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." - G.K. Chesterton

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless." - G.K. Chesterton

"To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist." - Gail Sheehy

"Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be measured." - Galileo Galilei

"To tell the truth is a beautiful act, even if the truth itself is ugly." - Galileo Galilei

"Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offense up against the offender." - Gary Chapman

"Skills are cheap. Passion is priceless." - Gary Vaynerchuk

"There is no perfect decision; there's just life. If what you try works out, great; if not, adjust and try again or pivot and do something else." - Gary Vaynerchuk

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better." - Georg C. Lichtenberg

"Everything you ever wanted is on the other side of fear." - George Addair

"Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities." - George Bellows

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

"People become attached to their burdens more than the burdens are attached to them." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than the life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw

"Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it." - George Bernard Shaw

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw

"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can." - George Bernard Shaw

"Honesty is the rarest of all virtues; it is the strongest thread that holds the fabric of society." - George Bernard Shaw

"After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere." - George Bernard Shaw

"Life isn’t about finding yourself, it’s about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Imagination is the beginning of creation." - George Bernard Shaw

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." - George Bernard Shaw

"Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness." - George Bernard Shaw

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice." - George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

"If you’re always trying to get to the future, you’re never really here." - George Harrison

"You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction." - George Horace Lorimer

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality." - George Lucas

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself." - George Orwell

"Where determination lies the way can be found." - George S. Clason

"Wealth grows wherever energy is exerted." - George S. Clason

"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." - George S. Patton

"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - George S. Patton

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius." - George Sand

"Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble." - George Washington

"It is far better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington

"It is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington

"Where there is no vision, there is no hope." - George Washington Carver

"When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world." - George Washington Carver

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction." - Germany Kent

"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good." - Germany Kent

"Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life." - Gertrude Stein

"Growth and comfort do not coexist." - Ginni Rometty

"To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail." - Giorgio Armani

"Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worthy of the trip." - Glenn Beck

"Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere." - Glenn Turner

"If you desire greatness, seek it within yourself, not elsewhere, and you will surely find it." - Goa Kerle

"An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you." - Goi Nasu

"Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds." - Gordon B. Hinckley

"Life is all about choices. Some we regret, some we’re proud of." - Graham Brown

"We’d forgive most things if we knew all the facts." - Graham Greene

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear." - Greg Kincaid

"Focus on the vital few, not the trivial many." - Greg McKeown

"F.A.M.I.L.Y: Forget About Me, I Love You." - Greg Schiano

"Wisdom comes from multiple perspectives." - Gregory Bateson

"On the other side of a storm is the strength that comes from having navigated through it." - Gregory S. Williams

"When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe but in time its bottom will surely rot out." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The best preparation for tomorrow is to do your best today. ." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"An idle boat in the harbor seems safe, but in time its bottom will rot out." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Don't burn bridges. You'll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river." - H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work." - H.L. Hunt

"The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life." - Hal Elrod

"We will either find a way, or we will make one." - Hannibal Barca

"I will find a way or I will make one." - Hannibal Barca

"People generally see what they want to see and hear what they are listening for." - Harper Lee

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from their perspective." - Harper Lee

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." - Harriet Tubman

"The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work." - Harry Golden

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." - Harry Truman

"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning." - Haruki Murakami

"And once the storm is over... you won’t be the same person who walked in." - Haruki Murakami

"Not to decide is to decide." - Harvey Cox

"You will never feel truly satisfied by work until you are satisfied by life." - Heather Schuck

"The expert in anything was once a beginner." - Helen Hayes

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish the small tasks, as if they were great and noble." - Helen Keller

"The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision." - Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller

"Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all." - Helen Keller

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much." - Helen Keller

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming of it." - Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us." - Helen Keller

"He who is content with what has been done is an obstacle in the path of progress." - Helen Keller

"The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement." - Helmut Schmidt

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

"Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man." - Henry Adams

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves." - Henry David Thoreau

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." - Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them." - Henry David Thoreau

"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry David Thoreau

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Henry David Thoreau

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." - Henry David Thoreau

"It’s not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?." - Henry David Thoreau

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." - Henry David Thoreau

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion." - Henry David Thoreau

"There is no person living who isn’t capable of doing more than they think they can do." - Henry Ford

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy." - Henry Ford

"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." - Henry Ford

"If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." - Henry Ford

"The only true mistakes are the ones from which we learn nothing." - Henry Ford

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

"Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward." - Henry Ford

"If you chop your own wood it will warm you twice." - Henry Ford

"There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." - Henry Ford

"One of the greatest discoveries a person makes...is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn’t do." - Henry Ford

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success." - Henry Ford

"One’s destiny isn't a place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller

"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything." - Henry Miller

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation, but through daring." - Henry Miller

"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud." - Henry Rollins

"Progress requires setbacks; the only sure way to avoid failure is not to try." - Henry Spencer

"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." - Henry Van Dyke

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors than from his virtues." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"The best thing one can do when it is raining, is to let it rain." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Look not mournfully into the past...Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul." - Henry Ward Beecher

"There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind that their presence is like bringing a lamp into a room." - Henry Ward Beecher

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

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Greatness lies... whose strength carries up the most hearts." - Henry Ward Beecher

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." - Henry Ward Beecher

"The only permanence in life is change." - Heraclitus

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." - Heraclitus

"The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future." - Herbert Spencer

"The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." - Herbert Spencer

"Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." - Hermann Hesse

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go." - Hermann Hesse

"I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value." - Hermann Hesse

"The destiny of man is in his own soul." - Herodotus

"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied." - Herophilus

"Before you heal someone, first ask them if they’re willing to give up the things that make them sick." - Hippocrates

"Rule your mind or it will rule you." - Horace

"The living soul of man, once conscious of its power cannot be quelled." - Horace Mann

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it." - Horace Mann

"Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last, we cannot break it." - Horace Mann

"Pay attention to what you’re paying attention to." - Howard Rheingold

"You won’t find reasonable men at the top of tall mountains." - Hunter S. Thompson

"A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstance." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Buy the ticket, take the ride." - Hunter Thompson

"You should seek approval from yourself, for yourself." - Ichiro Suzuki

"Where your attention goes, your time goes." - Idowu Koyenikan

"Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything." - Imam Ali

"We see the world and things not as they are, but as we are." - Immanuel Kant

"The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, to strive." - Indira Gandhi

"How we view what we do affect how we do what we do." - Inky Johnson

"You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind." - Irish Proverb

"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock." - Irving Ball

"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." - Irving Berlin

"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in." - Isaac Asimov

"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton

"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success." - Isaac Newton

"Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things." - Isaac Newton

"We build too many walls and not enough bridges." - Isaac Newton

"Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up." - Isabelle Laflèche

"I've always believed no matter how many shots I miss, I'm going to make the next one." - Isaiah Thomas

"People only saw the decision I made, not the choices I had." - Itachi Uchiha (Masashi Kishimoto)

"The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first." - Iyanla Vanzant

"The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had." - J. Paulsen

"We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." - J.K. Rowling

"We must all make the choice between what is right and what is easy." - J.K. Rowling

"Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light." - J.K. Rowling

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation upon which I rebuilt my life." - J.K. Rowling

"Ideas shape the course of history." - J.M. Keynes

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up." - J.M. Power

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are." - J.P. Morgan

"It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"All we have to do is decide what to do with the time we have been given." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"The world is not found in your books, but out there." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Foam is white and waves are grey; Beyond the sunset leads my way." - J.R.R. Tolkien

"Little by little, one travels far." - J.R.R. Tolkien

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

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." - Jack Dixon

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." - Jack Kerouac

"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow - hate's so easy compared." - Jack Kerouac

"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." - Jack London

"As long as I am prepared, I always expect to win." - Jack Nicklaus

"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it, but all that had gone before." - Jacob Riis

"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James A. Froude

"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny." - James Allen

"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." - James Allen

"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him." - James Allen

"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." - James Allen

"Our mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild." - James Allen

"The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities." - James Allen

"A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself." - James Allen

"Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power." - James Allen

"The body is a servant of the mind." - James Allen

"Many are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves." - James Allen

"Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance." - James Baker

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin

"The best teamwork comes from those who are working independently toward one goal in unison." - James Cash Penney

"Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement." - James Clear

"You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems." - James Clear

"Every winner and every loser has the same goal." - James Clear

"The goal of the winner is to focus on the activities. The goal of the loser is to focus on the goal." - James Clear

"Many people won't attempt something unless they can find an example of someone else who is already doing it." - James Clear

"A habit missed once is a mistake. A habit missed twice is a new habit." - James Clear

"Effort is the best indicator of interest." - James Clear

"Remember, the greater the opportunity the fewer are those who see it." - James Cook

"Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again." - James Cook

"Be mindful even if your mind is full." - James de la Vega

"Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving." - James E. Faust

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery." - James Joyce

"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle." - James Keller

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than one's fear." - James Neil Hollingworth (Ambrose Redmoon)

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, while the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, while the wise grows it under his feet." - James Oppenheim

"The moment is not found by seeking it, but by ceasing to escape from it." - James Pierce

"The key to learning is an awareness of where you lack understanding." - James Pierce

"Your life will be in order when disorder ceases to bother you." - James Pierce

"Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will." - James Stevens

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber

"Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." - James Thurber

"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb

"Understand that life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will." - Jawaharlal Nehru

"You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret…is to press play." - Jay Asher

"People look at you strange, say you changed. Like you worked that hard to stay the same." - Jay-Z

"Out of difficulties grow miracles." - Jean de La Bruyère

"Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Commitment is an act, not a word." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Only the one who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"I have led a toothless life. I have never bitten into anything; I was waiting, I was reserving myself for later on, and I have just noticed that my teeth are now all gone." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Success is a slow process, and quitting does not speed it up." - Jeffrey Fry

"The rarest of all human qualities is consistency." - Jeremy Bentham

"Determination becomes obsession and then it becomes all that matters. ." - Jeremy Irvine

"Today do what others won’t, so that tomorrow you can accomplish what others can’t." - Jerry Rice

"For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?." - Jesus Christ

"The wise does at once, what the fool does at last." - Jewish Proverb

"What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth." - Jewish Proverb

"The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

"If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it." - Jill Koenig

"Good is the enemy of great." - Jim Collins

"Wherever you are, be all there." - Jim Eliot

"Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God." - Jim Eliot

"There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." - Jim Morrison

"Do not ask for less problems. Wish for more skills." - Jim Rohn

"Make rest a necessity, not an objective." - Jim Rohn

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the consistent and cumulative weight of our daily disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either achievement or failure." - Jim Rohn

"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

"There are two pains in life; the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces and regret weighs tons." - Jim Rohn

"Don’t seek a life of security but rather a life of adventure…through adventure you just might find out how to live securely." - Jim Rohn

"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well." - Jim Rohn

"If it’s a priority, you’ll find a way if it isn’t, you’ll find an excuse." - Jim Rohn

"If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan." - Jim Rohn

"When you get a glimpse of your potential, that is when passion is born." - Jim Rohn

"Don’t act on your thoughts; you have to act on what’s in front of you. You change your life by changing your actions." - Jim Rohn

"The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy." - Jim Rohn

"Your life doesn’t get better by chance. It gets better by change. For things to change you have to change. For things to get better you have to get better." - Jim Rohn

"You can’t change the seasons, but you can change yourself -Jim Rohn." - Jim Rohn

"You don't start building the house until after it's finished in your mind. The same is true for any successful business or individual." - Jim Rohn

"You can have more than you’ve got, because you can become more than you are." - Jim Rohn

"You may not be able to do all that you find out about, but you should at least find out all that you can do." - Jim Rohn

"Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills." - Jim Rohn

"Here's all life expects us to do. Make measurable progress in a reasonable time." - Jim Rohn

"Success is neither magical nor mysterious. It is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals." - Jim Rohn

"If you really want to help someone change their life figure out how to change their mind." - Jim Rohn

"Take care of your body, for it’s the only place you have to live." - Jim Rohn

"Key phrase, casualness leads to casualties." - Jim Rohn

"Learn to work harder on yourself than you do on your job." - Jim Rohn

"Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know." - Jim Rohn

"Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better." - Jim Rohn

"The way to do it right is to first do it wrong." - Jim Rohn

"Set a goal for what it will make of you to achieve it; Set a goal that will make you stretch that far." - Jim Rohn

"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path." - Jim Rohn

"It takes all of us to help each of us." - Jim Rohn

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." - Jim Rohn

"Most success is not doing extraordinary things, but rather doing ordinary things extraordinarily well." - Jim Rohn

"Some things you just have to do every day." - Jim Rohn

"Put more of you into what you say. Put more of you into what you do." - Jim Rohn

"It’s important to have the greatest pull on your life be the pull of the future." - Jim Rohn

"Desire, that’s something that has to come from the inside, not the outside; you don’t send off for it." - Jim Rohn

"Learn how to be happy with what you have, while you pursue all that you want." - Jim Rohn

"Some people lead such mediocre lives they don’t know if they’re winning or losing." - Jim Rohn

"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

"You are where you are, but it’s not where you’ll end up." - Jimmy Carr

"Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got; no one is jealous of how you got it." - Jimmy Carr

"You can’t change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination." - Jimmy Dean

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra." - Jimmy Johnson

"Action is the antidote to despair." - Joan Baez

"Train, study, work, practice. Eventually your confidence will improve." - Jocko Willink

"And the pattern becomes a routine, and the routine becomes a rut; in a rut it’s hard to get out of." - Jocko Willink

"Excuses will destroy you and take everything you ever wanted…if you let them." - Jocko Willink

"When you are in the problem, you cannot see the solution." - Jocko Willink

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo - far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance." - Jodi Picoult

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital." - Joe Paterno

"You can’t do passion halfway. Living your passion means you’re all in. You trust your heart and your gut wherever that may take you." - Joe Plumeri

"Vision without action is only a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world." - Joel A. Barker

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible." - Joel Brown

"You cannot expect to live a positive life if you only hang with negative people." - Joel Osteen

"There are some things you can only learn in a storm." - Joel Osteen

"Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A man will see in the world what he carries in his heart." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Everything is hard before it is easy." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. ." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"One can endure anything, except a succession of ordinary days." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm; In the real world all rests on perseverance." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As soon as you trust yourself you will know how to live." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The truth shall set you free." - John 8:32

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

"Are you interested in achieving your goals or are you committed?." - John Assaraf

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you." - John Bunyan

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention." - John Burroughs

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

"Every decision is a choice, and every choice you make, makes you!." - John C. Maxwell

"Most people have uphill hopes, but downhill habits." - John C. Maxwell

"In order to grow yourself, you have to know yourself." - John C. Maxwell

"Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure." - John C. Maxwell

"We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are." - John C. Maxwell

"Reflective thinking turns experience into insight." - John C. Maxwell

"Change is inevitable, but growth is optional." - John C. Maxwell

"Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go." - John C. Maxwell

"Dreams are free, but the journey isn’t." - John C. Maxwell

"If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream." - John C. Maxwell

"Success is knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others." - John C. Maxwell

"Growth happens only when we question ourselves enough to ask serious questions from others." - John C. Maxwell

"They are unwilling to ask themselves or others hard questions." - John C. Maxwell

"They are unwilling to leave what they have known and practice. They are not willing to be wrong so they can discover what is right. Therefore they cling to right and their lives turn out wrong. How sad. - John C. Maxwell." - John C. Maxwell

"If you can’t change your world with one you can’t change your world with a million." - John C. Maxwell

"You’ve got to find them before you can lead them." - John C. Maxwell

"Good intentions are worthless unless they lead to good actions." - John C. Maxwell

"It’s not what happens to me. It’s what happens in me when it does." - John C. Maxwell

"Every person has seeds of greatness within, even though they may be currently dormant." - John C. Maxwell

"You cannot give what you do not have." - John C. Maxwell

"We need to go from being a person of good intentions to a person of good actions." - John C. Maxwell

"Dreams don’t work unless you do!." - John C. Maxwell

"I gotta find myself... so I can give myself to you." - John C. Maxwell

"You can’t make a good decision unless you’re honest with yourself first." - John C. Maxwell

"Good pride represents our dignity and self-respect. ‘Bad pride’ is the deadly sin of superiority..." - John C. Maxwell

"Successful people do daily what unsuccessful people do occasionally." - John C. Maxwell

"The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda." - John C. Maxwell

"An unintentional life accepts everything and does nothing." - John C. Maxwell

"Everything I’ve learned is because of questions I’ve asked, not answers I’ve given." - John C. Maxwell

"Make a commitment to grow daily." - John C. Maxwell

"Seek happiness, find disappointment. Seek value, find happiness." - John C. Maxwell

"Choose your pursuits wisely. There’s nothing like climbing the ladder of success only to get to the top of it and realize that it’s leaning against the wrong building." - John C. Maxwell

"We make decisions, then we manage decisions. And we’re either repairing or preparing; We repair when we FAIL to manage the decisions of today, but prepare when we ARE managing the decisions of today." - John C. Maxwell

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

"I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success... as perseverance." - John D. Rockefeller

"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." - John Dewey

"We do not learn from experience; we learn from reflecting on experience." - John Dewey

"Your results are the product of either personal focus or personal distractions." - John Di Lemme

"A rising tide lifts all boats." - John F. Kennedy

"There are risks and costs to action. But, they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction." - John F. Kennedy

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." - John F. Kennedy

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." - John F. Kennedy

"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction." - John F. Kennedy

"One person can make a difference, and everyone should try." - John F. Kennedy

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." - John F. Kennedy

"Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty." - John Finley

"Ignore your health and it will go away." - John Hjelm

"Nothing ever becomes real until it is experienced." - John Keats

"Show me your friends, and I’ll show you your future." - John Kuehn

"The discipline of desire is the background of character." - John Locke

"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." - John Locke

"The improvement of the understanding is for two ends; first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others." - John Locke

"I have always thought the actions of man the best interpreters of their thoughts." - John Locke

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth." - John Locke

"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed." - John Macdonald

"You were born an original. Don’t die a copy." - John Mason

"Every cloud has a silver lining." - John Milton

"He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king." - John Milton

"In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks." - John Muir

"Our attitude towards life determines life's attitude towards us." - John N. Mitchell

"Communication works for those who work at it." - John Powell

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." - John Quincy Adams

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"Don't let what you want to do interfere with what you need to do." - John R. Wooden

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone." - John Steinbeck

"All great and precious things are lonely." - John Steinbeck

"It’s nice to be important, but more important to be nice." - John Templeton

"Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings." - John Updike

"As the island of knowledge grows, so does the shoreline of ignorance." - John Wheeler

"If you don’t have the time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?." - John Wooden

"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." - John Wooden

"Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you." - John Wooden

"Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful." - John Wooden

"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

"It’s the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen." - John Wooden

"Flexibility is the key to stability." - John Wooden

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

"Don’t mistake activity with achievement." - John Wooden

"If YOU are afraid to fail you will never do the things you are capable of doing." - John Wooden

"Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character." - John Wooden

"You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." - Jonas Salk

"The way we spend our time defines who we are." - Jonathan Estrin

"It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better." - Jonathan Ive

"Pick battles big enough to matter small enough to win." - Jonathan Kozol

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others." - Jonathan Swift

"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart." - Jonathan Swift

"Treat yourself like someone you are responsible for helping." - Jordan B. Peterson

"See if you can bring a little more Heaven and a little less Hell to your own world and the world of those around you." - Jordan B. Peterson

"Take the next best step you can manage to take, forward, towards something worthwhile." - Jordan B. Peterson

"People rarely regret what they did do that didn’t work, but mostly what they didn’t do that might have worked had they done it." - Jordan B. Peterson

"There is nothing noble about being weak." - Jordan B. Peterson

"There isn’t anything more adventurous than the truth." - Jordan B. Peterson

"You don’t want to be secure, you want to be strong." - Jordan B. Peterson

"To live life fully, you must accept life fully." - Jordan B. Peterson

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today." - Jordan B. Peterson

"The first duty of man is to think for himself." - Jose Marti

"The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek." - Joseph Campbell

"Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer." - Joseph Campbell

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come." - Joseph Campbell

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure." - Joseph Campbell

"Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging." - Joseph Campbell

"You must be willing to leave the life that you planned in order to find the one waiting for you." - Joseph Campbell

"Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be." - Joseph Campbell

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"The aim of argument or of discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert

"Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness." - Joseph Pilates

"Calmness is the cradle of power." - Josiah Gilbert Holland

"Dreams always come a size too big so we can grow in them." - Josie Bissett

"Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting." - Joyce Meyer

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired." - Jules Renard

"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others." - Jules Renard

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can." - Julius Caesar

"Experience is the teacher of all things." - Julius Caesar

"The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look." - Julius Caesar

"Mens sana in corpore sano." - Juvenal

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings." - Kakuzo Okakura

"What usually stops us from becoming the fullest version of ourselves are the games we play to protect us from the reality that might grow us; What stops us is not prohibitions, but inhibitions." - Karl Martin

"Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it." - Katharine Whitehorn

"Curiosity is the engine of achievement." - Ken Robinson

"And God said, love your enemy, and I obeyed him and loved myself." - Khalil Gibran

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." - Khalil Gibran

"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." - Khalil Gibran

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." - Khalil Gibran

"There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own." - Kobe Bryant

"It’s not about the number of hours you practice. It’s about the number of hours your mind is present during practice." - Kobe Bryant

"Everything has a purpose. And that purpose has a story that goes along with it. It just depends on what your passion is." - Kobe Bryant

"If you want to perform a single rep so well when millions are watching, you need to be willing to put in millions of reps when no one is watching." - Kobe Bryant

"The moment you give up is the moment you let someone else win." - Kobe Bryant

"Don’t be sorry, be better." - Kratos (fictional character)

"Listening is about being present, not just about being quiet." - Krista Tippett

"Authenticity is the alignment of head, mouth, heart, and feet - thinking, saying, feeling, and doing the same thing - consistently. This builds trust, and followers love leaders they can trust." - Lance Secretan

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

"To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - Lao Tzu

"Those who know others are wise. Those who know themselves are enlightened." - Lao Tzu

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." - Lao Tzu

"The best fighter is never angry." - Lao Tzu

"To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." - Lao Tzu

"All streams flow to the ocean because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power." - Lao Tzu

"Act without expectation." - Lao Tzu

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." - Lao Tzu

"Silence is a source of great strength." - Lao Tzu

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still." - Lao Tzu

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it." - Lao Tzu

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao Tzu

"Honesty is the first step to an abundant life." - Lao Tzu

"A leader is best when people barely know they exist." - Lao Tzu

"The great way is not difficult for he who has no preferences." - Lao Tzu

"Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it." - Lao Tzu

"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty." - Lao Tzu

"Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is to say, ‘I don’t want to.’." - Lao Tzu

"Give without conditions and the people will prosper." - Lao Tzu

"To see things in the seed, well that is genius." - Lao Tzu

"When you accept yourself, the world accepts you." - Lao Tzu

"He who does not trust enough will not be trusted." - Lao Tzu

"Act; but do not contend." - Lao Tzu

"When you do not pretend to be more than you are you can be trusted." - Lao Tzu

"Those who try to shine dim their own light." - Lao Tzu

"Ad Astra Per Aspera." - Latin phrase

"The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away." - Leland Val Van de Wall

"Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest." - Leo Babauta

"Change is the end result of all true learning." - Leo Buscaglia

"the greatest warriors are time and patience." - Leo Tolstoy

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." - Leo Tolstoy

"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait." - Leo Tolstoy

"My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat." - Leo Tolstoy

"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth." - Leo Tolstoy

"There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

"The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create." - Leonard Sweet

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The noblest pleasure is being able to understand." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning never exhausts the mind." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it." - Leonardo da Vinci

"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinion." - Leonardo Da Vinci

"A spark neglected burns the house." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Contemplation is vital, thinking is vital; he who thinks little errs much." - Leonardo da Vinci

"We do not judge a tree by the fruit it is supposed to bear, but by that which it does." - Les Brown

"You’ve got to learn to stand up to yourself, inside yourself." - Les Brown

"Don’t say I’m having a bad day, say I’m having a character building day." - Les Brown

"In life you can come up with excuses or achievements. Go through life blaming or coming up with solutions. The choice is in your hands. Satisfaction or despair." - Les Brown

"You are never too old to set a new goal or dream a new dream." - Les Brown

"When things go wrong, don’t go with them." - Les Brown

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift your higher. OQP, Only Quality People." - Les Brown

"Someone’s opinion of you does not need to become your reality." - Les Brown

"Be careful what you say, because once you open your mouth you tell the world who you are." - Les Brown

"Life has no limits, except the ones you make." - Les Brown

"You’ve got to be HUNGRY!." - Les Brown

"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness to actually achieve it." - Les Brown

"You can always better your best." - Les Brown

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you." - Lewis B. Smedes

"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there." - Lewis Carroll

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take." - Lewis Carroll

"Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once." - Lillian Dickson

"The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe it is possible." - Linda Woolverton

"Adversity is the first path to truth." - Lord Byron

"Prepare yourself for the world, as the athletes used to do for their exercises; oil your mind and your manners, to give them the necessary suppleness and flexibility; strength alone will not do." - Lord Chesterfield

"You're never as good or bad as others say." - Lou Holtz

"You aren’t going to find anybody that's going to be successful, without sacrifice and without perseverance." - Lou Holtz

"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood." - Lou Holtz

"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goals: my strength lies solely in my tenacity." - Louis Pasteur

"Chance favors only the prepared mind." - Louis Pasteur

"I am not afraid of stormy seas for I am learning how to sail my ship." - Louisa May Alcott

"It takes two flints to make a fire." - Louisa May Alcott

"Those who believe are strong; those who doubt are weak. Strong convictions precede great actions." - Louisa May Alcott

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations." - Louisa May Alcott

"The point of power is always in the present moment." - Louise Hay

"You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." - Louise Hay

"A wise man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Lucius Seneca

"To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable." - Ludwig van Beethoven

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." - M. Scott Peck

"Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it." - M.H. McKee

"Action expresses priorities." - Mahatma Gandhi

"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your values, and your values become your destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Today’s deeds are tomorrow’s destiny." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." - Mahatma Gandhi

"You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The future depends on what you do today." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Man often becomes that which he believes himself to be." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Speak only if it improves upon the silence." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life." - Mahatma Gandhi

"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation." - Mahatma Gandhi

"As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, as in being able to remake ourselves." - Mahatma Gandhi

"An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Seek the truth and seek God, and you will find the truth by finding God." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment; full effort is full victory." - Mahatma Gandhi

"There is more to life than increasing its speed." - Mahatma Gandhi

"In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm Forbes

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs." - Malcolm Forbes

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are." - Malcolm Forbes

"I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at." - Malcolm Forbes

"The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter." - Malcolm Gladwell

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong." - Mandy Hale

"Have faith in your journey. Everything had to happen exactly as it did to get you where you’re going next." - Mandy Hale

"Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?." - Marcel Marceau

"The journey of self-discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind." - Marcel Proust

"We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond." - Marcel Proust

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom." - Marcel Proust

"Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer." - Marcia Wieder

"The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition." - Marcus Aurelius

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." - Marcus Aurelius

"I do what is mine to do. The rest does not disturb me." - Marcus Aurelius

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." - Marcus Aurelius

"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears." - Marcus Aurelius

"A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions." - Marcus Aurelius

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind the closer he is to strength." - Marcus Aurelius

"The present is all we have. To live in. Or to lose." - Marcus Aurelius

"How much time one saves who does not look to see what their neighbor says or does or thinks." - Marcus Aurelius

"Whatever happens to you has been waiting to happen since the beginning of time." - Marcus Aurelius

"The obstacle is the way." - Marcus Aurelius

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius

"Today I didn’t escape my anxiety, but rather discarded it, for it was within me to do so." - Marcus Aurelius

"Your mind is your only strength; your reason your only power." - Marcus Aurelius

"If it is endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining." - Marcus Aurelius

"The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything of the subject." - Marcus Aurelius

"Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible." - Marcus Aurelius

"Comfort is the worst addiction." - Marcus Aurelius

"Pain is neither unbearable nor unending, as long as you keep in mind it’s limits and don’t magnify them in your imagination." - Marcus Aurelius

"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way." - Marcus Aurelius

"To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it." - Marcus Aurelius

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them." - Marcus Aurelius

"Most of what we say and do is not essential. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?'." - Marcus Aurelius

"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe." - Marcus Aurelius

"The highest good is to find your true self and live according to your nature." - Marcus Aurelius

"Well begun is half done." - Marcus Aurelius

"Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment." - Marcus Buckingham

"Indecision is the thief of opportunity." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor." - Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Appreciation can make a day, even change a life." - Margaret Cousins

"When nothing is sure, everything is possible." - Margaret Drabble

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it." - Margaret Fuller

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling." - Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less." - Marie Curie

"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves." - Marie Curie

"Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together." - Marilyn Monroe

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe." - Marilyn vos Savant

"Nothing is impossible to the one who believes." - Mark 9:23

"Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is relax." - Mark Black

"We can be truly successful only at things we are willing to fail at." - Mark Manson

"Two great moments in a person's life are the moment they are born and the moment they realize why." - Mark Twain

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." - Mark Twain

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances." - Mark Twain

"The best way to get ahead is to get started." - Mark Twain

"When you speak the truth, you don’t have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"To change your life, you need to change your priorities." - Mark Twain

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

"Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise." - Mark Twain

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read." - Mark Twain

"Don’t walk away from negative people - run!." - Mark Twain

"Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people." - Mark Twain

"There are 1,000 excuses for failure, but never a good reason." - Mark Twain

"How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way." - Mark Twain

"When in doubt, tell the truth." - Mark Twain

"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

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." - Mark Twain

"If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away." - Mark Twain

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - Mark Twain

"There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." - Mark Twain

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain

"An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it." - Mark Twain

"Give every day the chance to be the most beautiful day of your life." - Mark Twain

"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter." - Mark Twain

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"If you don’t go through life with an open mind, you will find a lot of closed doors." - Mark W. Perrett

"There are no hopeless situations, only men and women that have grown hopeless about them." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"Don’t tell me that the problem is difficult. If it were not difficult, it would not be a problem." - Marshal Ferdinand Foch

"What got you here won’t get you there." - Marshall Goldsmith

"Solitude is the place of purification." - Martin Buber

"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime." - Martin Luther

"If a man is called a street-sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street-sweeper who did his job well." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is taking the step, without seeing the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Every step toward the goals requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Only in the darkness can you see the stars." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"The sound of geese flying overhead is the sound of life moving on." - Marty Rubin

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’." - Mary Anne Radmacher

"There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened." - Mary Kay Ash

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." - Matsuo Bashō

"A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow." - Matsuo Bashō

"Ask and it shall be given ; Seek and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened." - Matthew (the apostle)

"Judge not, that you be not judged." - Matthew (the apostle)

"The arrow doesn't seek the target. The target draws the arrow." - Matthew McConaughey

"Unity is strength… when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." - Mattie Stepanek

"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for." - Maureen Dowd

"If you want to lead the orchestra you have to be willing to turn your back on the crowd." - Max Lucado

"Curiosity and questions will get you further than confidence and answers." - Maxime Lagace

"Keep your vitality. A life without health is like a river without water." - Maxime Lagacé

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away." - Maya Angelou

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." - Maya Angelou

"Nothing can dim the light that shines from within." - Maya Angelou

"This is a wonderful day. I have never seen this one before." - Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." - Maya Angelou

"Sacrifice is the heart of family, be it by blood or by bond." - Maya Angelou

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude." - Maya Angelou

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." - Maya Angelou

"All great achievements require time." - Maya Angelou

"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated." - Maya Angelou

"Change requires you to do things that feel hard." - Mel Robbins

"The elegance of honesty needs no adornment." - Merry Browne

"Celebrate what you’ve accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed." - Mia Hamm

"Life is always ready to teach when you are willing to learn." - Michael A. Singer

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot." - Michael Altshuler

"It's a new dawn. It's a new day. It's a new life...and I'm feeling good." - Michael Bublé

"Family is not an important thing, it's everything." - Michael J. Fox

"A creative mess is better than idle tidiness." - Michael J. Fox

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen." - Michael Jordan

"Winners don't just learn the fundamentals, they master them." - Michael Jordan

"You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them." - Michael Jordan

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships." - Michael Jordan

"In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same." - Michael Singer

"The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere." - Michel de Montaigne

"Not being able to govern events, I govern myself." - Michel de Montaigne

"The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain." - Michel de Montaigne

"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways." - Michel de Montaigne

"Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity." - Michel de Montaigne

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." - Michel de Montaigne

"The greater danger in life is not that we aim too high and miss, but that we aim too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want." - Mignon McLaughlin

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next." - Mignon McLaughlin

"To be prepared is half the victory." - Miguel de Cervantes

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune." - Miguel de Cervantes

"If you can see yourself as an artist, and you can see that your life is your own creation, then why not create the most beautiful story for yourself?." - Miguel Ruiz

"Before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy." - Mike Ditka

"Victory is in the quality of the competition, not just the final score." - Mike Marshall

"The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine." - Mike Murdock

"Not everybody you fight is your enemy and not everyone who helps you is your friend." - Mike Tyson

"If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind." - Mikhail Gorbachev

"If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door." - Milton Berle

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star, I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; because a might have-been has never been, but a has-been was once an are." - Milton Berle

"The brave never die, though they sleep in dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men." - Minot J. Savage

"You must understand there is more than one way to the top of the mountain." - Miyamoto Musashi

"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself." - Miyamoto Musashi

"There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself." - Miyamoto Musashi

"The warrior's life is not one of personal conquest, but about deepening his understanding." - Miyamoto Musashi

"Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life." - Miyamoto Musashi

"The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them." - Miyamoto Musashi

"Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie." - Miyamoto Musashi

"My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon." - Mizuta Masahide

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Molière

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it." - Molière

"The mistake I made wasn’t to say something was possible and it wasn’t; it was to say something was impossible before I knew it." - Moran Cerf

"Even the darkest hour has only 60 minutes." - Morris Mandel

"Do less, THEN obsess." - Morten T. Hansen

"My goal in life is not to overcome, but to persist!." - Mother Teresa

"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." - Mother Teresa

"Just when I thought I had a handle on life the handle broke." - Mother Teresa

"Life’s a game, play it." - Mother Teresa

"I alone can’t change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples." - Mother Teresa

"Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin." - Mother Teresa

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth." - Muhammad Ali

"Don’t count the days; make the days count." - Muhammad Ali

"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wears you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe." - Muhammad Ali

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." - Muhammad Ali

"You don’t lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down." - Muhammad Ali

"True success is achieving our goals without compromising our values." - Muhammad Ali

"The one who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

"Champions are not made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them." - Muhammad Ali

"The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something." - Muhammad Iqbal

"You have to conquer fear, in order to find the hidden hero within yourself. ." - Mukesh Ambani

"Today is a battle, a test that will end." - n/a

"I’m not giving up on you. You may not realize it yet, but people are counting on what you can do for them." - n/a

"Truth of what? Who we are and who we could become." - n/a

"You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz

"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"It’s the unconquerable souls of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy’s." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Victory is always possible for the person who never stops trying." - Napoleon Hill

"Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control." - Napoleon Hill

"It takes most people half their life to realize that life is a do it yourself project." - Napoleon Hill

"Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command." - Napoleon Hill

"Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting." - Napoleon Hill

"No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality." - Napoleon Hill

"Effort only fully releases its reward after one refuses to give up." - Napoleon Hill

"Every adversity, every failure and every heartache carries with it the seed of an equivalent or a greater benefit." - Napoleon Hill

"Whatever the mind of man can conceive, and believe he can achieve." - Napoleon Hill

"Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis." - Napoleon Hill

"There are no limitations to the mind, except those we acknowledge." - Napoleon Hill

"If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self." - Napoleon Hill

"Procrastination is the one habit that heads the list of the causes of failure." - Napoleon Hill

"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel." - Napoleon Hill

"Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire." - Napoleon Hill

"Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available." - Napoleon Hill

"A burning desire to be and do is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off." - Napoleon Hill

"Dreams are the seedlings of reality. Awake, arise and assert yourself you dreamers of the world..." - Napoleon Hill

"The body achieves what the mind believes." - Napoleon Hill

"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters." - Nathaniel Emmons

"A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought - they must be earned." - Naval Ravikant

"Under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to your level of training." - Navy SEALs

"The only easy day was yesterday." - Navy SEALs

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone." - Neale Donald Walsch

"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit." - Nelson Henderson

"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." - Nelson Mandela

"May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears." - Nelson Mandela

"A winner is a dreamer who never gives up." - Nelson Mandela

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination." - Nelson Mandela

"Where you stand depends on where you sit." - Nelson Mandela

"Everything is already created. Your trick is to become aware of its presence, and lay claim to it." - Neville Goddard

"Act as if you were and you will become." - Neville Goddard

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did." - Newt Gingrich

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others." - Niccolò Machiavelli

"Change brings opportunity." - Nido Qubein

"Just Do It." - Nike Slogan

"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can." - Nikos Kazantzakis

"There’s no reward without work, no victory without effort, no battle won without risk." - Nora Roberts

"The tragedy of life is not death in the end, but what dies inside of us while we still live." - Norman Cousins

"The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war." - Norman Schwarzkopf

"Dream big and dare to fail." - Norman Vaughan

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!." - Norman Vincent Peale

"We would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Give every bit of yourself. Hold nothing back." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person." - Norman Vincent Peale

"The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes to victory." - Norman Vincent Peale

"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world." - Norman Vincent Peale

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things." - Norman Vincent Peale

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

"Always do your best. What you plant now, is what you will harvest later." - Og Mandino

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." - Og Mandino

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

"It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world." - Og Mandino

"I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable. -Og Mandino." - Og Mandino

"Endure everything." - Okinawan saying

"He who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell

"He who seeks only for applause from without has all his happiness in another’s keeping." - Oliver Goldsmith

"Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations." - Oliver Goldsmith

"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than the one where they sprang up." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off and ignorance begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving." - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"You have to be responsible for the energy you put out into the world." - Oprah Winfrey

"There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be." - Oprah Winfrey

"We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are." - Oprah Winfrey

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey

"Don’t worry about being successful, but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow." - Oprah Winfrey

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence." - Orison Swett Marden

"Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. The weak wait for opportunities; The strong make them." - Orison Swett Marden

"Put the uncommon effort into the common task, make it large by doing it in a great way." - Orison Swett Marden

"An error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." - Orlando Battista

"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more." - Oscar Wilde

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist and that is all." - Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live." - Oscar Wilde

"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." - Oscar Wilde

"Wisdom comes with winters." - Oscar Wilde

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

"Do not wait for life. Do not long for it. For life is here now, always." - Osho

"Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish." - Ouida

"Be patient and tough. Someday the pain will be useful to you." - Ovid

"Habits change into character." - Ovid

"Comfort is the enemy of progress." - P. T. Barnum

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." - Pablo Picasso

"Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working." - Pablo Picasso

"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso

"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso

"Action is the foundational key to success." - Pablo Picasso

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction." - Pablo Picasso

"Stillness is the altar of spirit." - Paramahansa Yogananda

"It’s hard to have a better tomorrow if you spend today only thinking about yesterday." - Pat Davitt

"You can’t live in hope. Hope needs to live in you." - Pat Davitt

"But you can’t if you won’t and you won’t if you don’t wanna." - Pat Davitt

"As we are the sculptors of our fate, choose wisely. For our actions carve the path upon which we tread." - Pat Davitt

"As, a clear path cannot be seen by a clouded mind." - Pat Davitt

"If someone drives you to the top of their mountain, the best that will do is get you to see off in the distance lies your own." - Pat Davitt

"It is the interested that watch from the stands what the obsessed earned the opportunity to do." - Pat Davitt

"Start with the tree in front of you, and the forest will follow." - Pat Davitt

"Life is a verb. Live it." - Pat Davitt

"So, wait with wisdom, grow with grace, and run with resilience." - Pat Davitt

"Observe. Learn. Evolve. Thrive." - Pat Davitt

"Pay attention to the details. It’s the little things that will catch up to you." - Pat Davitt

"Dreams may set the course, but it's your passion that fuels the voyage, hard work that steers the ship, and relentless effort that anchors you in the harbor of achievement." - Pat Davitt

"Shape your destiny with the threads of daily habits, weaving the masterpiece of your life." - Pat Davitt

"Aren’t you curious for who you still yet could become?." - Pat Davitt

"They say ‘curiosity killed the cat’… but, I say ‘who cares - it’s got 9 lives.’." - Pat Davitt

"Every incremental step, matter how small, contributes to greater progress." - Pat Davitt

"Circle the fence they have built and look for holes. Not to escape, but to expand. Not for limitations, but opportunities and solutions." - Pat Davitt

"The land of familiarity belongs to the dead. Comfort is stagnant, and growth happens outside of it." - Pat Davitt

"Growth and learning do not happen on their own, but through continuous, daily practice." - Pat Davitt

"Where the mind goes the body will follow." - Pat Davitt

"Dare to pursue a better you, for all the better you will have to better those who don’t." - Pat Davitt

"Let adversity be afraid of you." - Pat Davitt

"Progress and ease cannot dwell together." - Pat Davitt

"The lies we tell ourselves allow us to stop, but the truth encourages us onwards." - Pat Davitt

"Do not ask what you’ll get once you reach it, for you’ll already have who you’d become trying to get there." - Pat Davitt

"One of the best ways to know what to do next is to know what you’re doing now." - Pat Davitt

"If you hate starting over, stop quitting." - Pat Davitt

"Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace within it." - Pat Davitt

"If you don’t like the view, then fight for a window seat on the ride of life." - Pat Davitt Sr.

"If you wanna change someone’s life, start by changing their day first." - Pat Flynn

"There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength." - Pat Riley

"There are only two options regarding commitment; you’re either in or you’re out." - Pat Riley

"It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be." - Paul Arden

"You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat." - Paul Brown

"The key to winning is poise under stress." - Paul Brown

"Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your weaknesses...on your powers, instead of your problems." - Paul Meyer

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too." - Paulo Coelho

"Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path." - Paulo Coelho

"Travel is never a matter of money, but one of courage." - Paulo Coelho

"The danger of adventure is worth 1000 days of ease and comfort." - Paulo Coelho

"Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose, and commit myself to what is best for me." - Paulo Coelho

"It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." - Paulo Coelho

"If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule. Never lie to yourself." - Paulo Coelho

"When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself." - Paulo Coelho

"All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready." - Paulo Coelho

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do." - Pelé

"The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves." - Pema Chödrön

"You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather." - Pema Chödrön

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions." - Pema Chödrön

"What I fear most is not the enemy’s strategies, but our own mistakes." - Pericles

"Time is the wisest counselor of all." - Pericles

"By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth." - Peter Abelard

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence. It is to act with yesterday's logic." - Peter Drucker

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all." - Peter Drucker

"Play by the rules, but be ferocious." - Phil Knight

"The mind should be as a mirror - calm and clear." - Philip Kapleau

"Keep your mind on a higher image rather than a lower concern." - Philip Nacola

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do." - Philip Pullman

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

"The wise speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something." - Plato

"When others speak ill of you, live so that nobody believes them." - Plato

"Good judgement is a form of knowledge." - Plato

"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." - Plato

"Our need will be the real creator." - Plato

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

"To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one’s own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat." - Plato

"The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself." - Plato

"No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth." - Plato

"There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot." - Plato

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers." - Plato

"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, in writing what deserves to be read, and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it." - Pliny the Elder

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be ignited." - Plutarch

"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality." - Plutarch

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch

"There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself." - Pope Francis

"If you’re going to doubt something in life, doubt your limits." - Price Pritchett

"An idle mind is the devil’s playground." - Proverb

"Do not boast about your knowledge...show it by your deeds." - Proverb

"If you walk with the wise, you will become wise, but the companion of fools fares badly." - Proverbs 13:20

"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." - Proverbs 16:18

"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17

"You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force." - Pubilius Syrus

"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason." - Publilius Syrus

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." - Publilius Syrus

"To do two things at once is to do neither." - Publilius Syrus

"Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness." - Publilius Syrus

"Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy." - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

"Choices are the hinges of your destiny." - Pythagoras

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet." - Rachel Wolchin

"The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"The only journey is the one within." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"If your everyday life seems poor, don’t blame it. Blame yourself." - Rainer Maria Rilke

"Growth comes from chaos, not order." - Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

"Excellence is not a skill, it’s an attitude." - Ralph Marston

"Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself; then get back to work." - Ralph Marston

"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality." - Ralph Marston

"The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move." - Ralph Marston

"The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers." - Ralph Nader

"Make the most of yourself…for that is all there is of you." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do not follow where the path may lead, but go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never mistake contradiction for persecution." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The creation of a thousand forests is contained within a single acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"By persisting on your path, even though you may forfeit the little, you gain the great." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Curiosity is lying in wait, for every secret." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Unless you attempt to do something beyond that which you have already mastered you will never grow." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is a progress, and not a station." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to become what we know we could be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself becomes easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The first wealth is health." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Knowledge is the antidote to fear." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The selfish one suffers more from their selfishness than they from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is not length of life, but depth of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don’t be too timid and too squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Skill to do comes of doing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Concentration is the secret of strength." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patience and fortitude conquer all things." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink in the wild air." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He who is not everyday conquering some fear is not learning the secret of life." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear." - Ram Dass

"The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves." - Ray Kroc

"Your past and your present have absolutely nothing to do with the next moment; every moment is a new moment." - Ray Stanford

"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away." - Raymond Hull

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Lindquist

"To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." - Reba McEntire

"I think therefore I am." - René Descartes

"It is not enough to have a great mind; the main thing is to use it well." - René Descartes

"To understand the true nature of the universe, one must turn inward and examine the mind’s assumptions and beliefs." - René Descartes

"In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate." - René Descartes

"The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all." - Richard Branson

"True knowledge is not given, you have to pay attention." - Richard Feynman

"Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage." - Richard Lovelace

"A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s." - Richard Whately

"Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us." - Richie Norton

"Insecurity is only a hindrance when it stops you from sharing what’s in your heart." - Rick Rubin

"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair." - Rick Warren

"Great opportunities are often disguised as small acts of service." - Rick Warren

"I could’ve lived without becoming a success, but I couldn’t have lived without trying." - Ricky Gervais

"Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it." - Roald Dahl

"If we point out problems, we must try to solve them." - Robert Alan Silverstein

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can't have it." - Robert Anthony

"Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure." - Robert Anthony

"You can only have two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons don’t count." - Robert Anthony

"Every lie is two lies. The lie we tell others and the lie we tell ourselves to justify it." - Robert Brault

"If you feel you are down on your luck, check the level of your effort." - Robert Brault

"We are kept from our goal not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal." - Robert Brault

"We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs." - Robert Breault

"There is no defeat except from within.There is no defeat except from within. There is really no insurmountable barrier, save your own inherent weakness of purpose. There is no failure except in no longer trying." - Robert Burns Wilson

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

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

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." - Robert Frost

"The best way out, is always through." - Robert Frost

"Do not worry that others never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum

"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart." - Robert Green Ingersoll

"We rise by lifting others." - Robert Green Ingersoll

"Part of life is figuring out what you were meant to do. Everyone is unique, and that uniqueness exists for a purpose; if you follow it and use your uniqueness in some way you will probably create something great; if you follow what everyone else is doing you will probably become like everyone else." - Robert Greene

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived." - Robert Jordan

"It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life; it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power." - Robert Kiyosaki

"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"Do not judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." - Robert Louis Stevenson

"An open mind is a prerequisite to an open heart." - Robert M. Sapolsky

"The only Zen you find on the top of the mountain is the Zen that you bring up there." - Robert Pirsig

"If you count all your assets, you always show a profit." - Robert Quillen

"Yard by yard life is hard, but inch by inch life’s a cinch." - Robert Schuller

"If we give something positive to others, it will return to us. If we give negative, that negativity will be returned." - Robert Schuller

"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines." - Robert Schuller

"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." - Robert Schuller

"The struggle you're in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow." - Robert Tew

"Don’t let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out!." - Robert Tew

"A healthy outside starts from the inside." - Robert Urich

"The eyes only see what the mind is prepared to comprehend." - Robertson Davies

"You did not wake up to be mediocre." - Robin Arzon

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end." - Robin Sharma

"Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life." - Robin Sharma

"What you focus on grows, what you think about expands, and what you dwell upon determines your destiny." - Robin Sharma

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win." - Roger Bannister

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional." - Roger Crawford

"The real war is not with life itself, but with your mind. Win your mind and you will win in life." - Roger Lee

"Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction." - Roger McDonald

"We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone." - Ronald Reagan

"Success is never owned, it is rented, and the rent is due every day." - Rory Vaden

"You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through." - Rosalynn Carter

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter

"Turn your obstacles into opportunities, and your problems into possibilities." - Roy T. Bennett

"Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied." - Roy T. Bennett

"Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps you get through it." - Roy T. Bennett

"You cannot change someone, but you can be the reason someone changes." - Roy T. Bennett

"To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence." - Roy T. Bennett

"Do what is right, not what is easy, nor what is popular." - Roy T. Bennett

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart." - Roy T. Bennett

"If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it." - Rudyard Kipling

"Just keep going. No feeling is final." - Rumi

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop." - Rumi

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." - Rumi

"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself." - Rumi

"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder." - Rumi

"I know you are tired, but come this is the way." - Rumi

"Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart." - Rumi

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand." - Rumi

"There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen." - Rumi

"Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction." - Rumi

"When setting out on a journey, never seek advice from those who never left home." - Rumi

"The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open." - Rumi

"Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." - Rumi

"The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind." - Rumi

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation." - Rumi

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." - Rumi

"Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of This Moment." - Rumi

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." - Rumi

"Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean." - Ryunosuke Satoro

"If you are aware, life is spectacular. If you are not aware, it is all the same." - Sadhguru

"There’s no such thing as a work-life balance, for it’s all life. The balance has to be within you." - Sadhguru

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - Saint Augustine

"Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility." - Saint Augustine

"God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist." - Saint Augustine

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength." - Saint Francis de Sales

"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice." - Saint Francis de Sales

"True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice." - Saint Francis de Sales

"Bloom where you are planted." - Saint Francis de Sales

"Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach it." - Salvador Dalí

"To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions." - Sam Keen

"Ever tried, ever failed. No matter, try again. Fail again, fail better." - Samuel Beckett

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance." - Samuel Johnson

"It is more from carelessness about the truth than from intentional lying that there is so much falsehood in the world." - Samuel Johnson

"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly." - Samuel Johnson

"What we hope to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence." - Samuel Johnson

"Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny." - Samuel Smiles

"What holds us back from making the changes we desire are our own limiting thoughts and actions." - Satsuki

"Every skill you acquire doubles your odds of success." - Scott Adams

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." - Scott Adams

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"All good is hard. All evil is easy. Stay away from easy." - Scott Alexander

"The most important skill you need is the ability to learn how to change and grow." - Scott Cook

"Not how long but how well you have lived is the main thing." - Seneca

"It is not the man who has too little but the one who continually craves more that is poor." - Seneca

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca

"Not how long but how well you have lived is the main thing." - Seneca

"No man has ever become wise by chance." - Seneca

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." - Seneca

"No man ever became wise by chance." - Seneca

"If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable." - Seneca

"The greater part of progress is the desire to progress." - Seneca

"It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable." - Seneca

"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much....The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided, but use what we have wastefully." - Seneca

"No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it." - Seneca

"Every new beginning has to come from some other beginning’s end." - Seneca

"Begin each day to live and count each day as a separate life." - Seneca

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men." - Seneca

"Begin each day to live, and count each day as a separate life." - Seneca

"He who is brave is free." - Seneca

"Happy is the man who can make others better, not merely when he is in their company, but even when he is in their thoughts." - Seneca

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared." - Seneca

"It is better to have useless knowledge than to know nothing." - Seneca

"The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today." - Seneca

"A commander never puts such trust in peace that they fail to prepare for war." - Seneca

"Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow it loses today." - Seneca

"The greatest remedy for anger is delay." - Seneca

"The greatest of empires is the empire over one’s self." - Seneca

"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness." - Seneca

"We treat the body vigorously so that it will not be disobedient to the mind." - Seneca

"There is no easy way from the earth to the stars." - Seneca

"Mediocrity is not worth the trip." - Sergio Zyman

"Change is not a threat, it's an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is." - Seth Godin

"Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late." - Seth Godin

"I can't worry about my problems, and I can't take 'em when I'm gone." - Shaboozey

"If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces." - Shane Koyczan

"Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean." - Shannon L. Alder

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go." - Shannon L. Alder

"Improvement usually means doing something that we have never done before." - Shigeo Shingo

"In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few." - Shunryu Suzuki

"The only person with whom you have to compare ourselves, is that you in the past." - Sigmund Freud

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength." - Sigmund Freud

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility." - Sigmund Freud

"Words may inspire, but only action creates change." - Simon Sinek

"There is a difference between listening and just waiting for your turn to speak." - Simon Sinek

"Words may inspire, but only actions create change." - Simon Sinek

"There are leaders and there are those who lead. We follow leaders because we have to. We follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to." - Simon Sinek

"Working hard for something we don’t care about is called stress; working hard for something we love is called passion." - Simon Sinek

"I have often regretted my speech, rarely my silence." - Simonides

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original." - Sir Ken Robinson

"Let him that would move the world move himself first." - Socrates

"The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." - Socrates

"To know yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates

"To find yourself, think for yourself." - Socrates

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." - Socrates

"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be." - Socrates

"If you want to be a good saddler, saddle the worst horse; for if you can take that one you can take them all." - Socrates

"Smart people learn from everything and everyone; average people learn only from experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers." - Socrates

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." - Socrates

"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." - Socrates

"Small minded people blame others, average minded people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness." - Socrates

"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." - Socrates

"To move the world we must first move ourselves." - Socrates

"There is only one evil, ignorance, and only one good, knowledge." - Socrates

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." - Socrates

"Success is dependent on effort." - Sophocles

"Without labor nothing prospers." - Sophocles

"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears everything, and discloses all." - Sophocles

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." - Sophocles

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kierkegaard

"Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts." - Søren Kierkegaard

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced." - Søren Kierkegaard

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays." - Søren Kierkegaard

"Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people." - Spencer Johnson

"Bad times, good times. We are the times. Such as we are, such are the times." - St. Augustine

"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity." - St. Augustine

"It’s not the position that makes the leader; it’s the leader that makes the position." - Stanley J. Grenz

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody." - Stephen Chbosky

"We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions." - Stephen Covey

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities." - Stephen Covey

"Remember that you are not a product of your circumstances. You are a product of your decisions." - Stephen Covey

"The key is in not spending time, but in investing it." - Stephen Covey

"Accountability breeds response-ability." - Stephen Covey

"Listen with the intent to understand, not the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey

"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions." - Stephen Covey

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen Covey

"Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things." - Stephen Covey

"Listen with the intent to understand, not to reply." - Stephen Covey

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey

"Begin with the end in mind." - Stephen Covey

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." - Stephen Hawking

"Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it." - Stephen Hawking

"A coward judges all he sees by what he is." - Stephen King

"Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work." - Stephen King

"A man who can’t bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them." - Stephen King

"There are two ways to experience change; You can react to it or you can participate in it." - Steve Harvey

"The things you regret most in life are the things you didn’t do." - Steve Jobs

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it trying to live someone else’s life." - Steve Jobs

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a really long time." - Steve Jobs

"It's not the tools you have faith in—tools are just tools. They work, or they don't work. It's people you have faith in or not." - Steve Jobs

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." - Steve Jobs

"Focusing is about saying no." - Steve Jobs

"Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice." - Steve Jobs

"Take accountability. Blame is the water in which many dreams and relationships drown." - Steve Maraboli

"Cause I looked back on my life. Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good I realize that I was being redirected toward something better." - Steve Maraboli

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness." - Steve Maraboli

"Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention." - Steve Maraboli

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't." - Steve Maraboli

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself." - Steve Maraboli

"Everyone wants to ride the train, but not everyone is willing to lay the tracks." - Steve Maraboli

"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same." - Steve Maraboli

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." - Steve Prefontaine

"Happiness equals smiles minus frowns." - Steve Wozniak

"If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready." - Stoic Saying

"Your beliefs don't make you a better person, your behavior does." - Sukhraj S. Dhillon

"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the offense." - Sun Tzu

"Invincibility lies in the defense; the possibility of victory in the offense." - Sun Tzu

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu

"Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price." - Sun Tzu

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." - Sun Tzu

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu

"Sweat more in practice, bleed less in war." - Sun Tzu

"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems." - Sun Tzu

"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu

"Discomfort is the price of admission to a meaningful life." - Susan David

"Your faith can move mountains and your doubt can create them." - Swami Vivekananda

"Don’t shape yourself around the comings and goings of this world, or your opinions and attitudes around circumstances that you cannot change." - T.D. Jakes

"The blessing is not being prepared for you, but rather you are being prepared for the blessing….therefore, the work doesn’t have to be applied to where you’re going, but the work has to be applied to you so that when you get to where you are going you are prepared to handle it." - T.D. Jakes

"Success is never an accident." - T.D. Jakes

"All dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find it was in vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible." - T.E. Lawrence

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." - T.S. Eliot

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." - T.S. Eliot

"Every moment is a fresh beginning." - T.S. Eliot

"To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning—the important thing is not what the meaning of the world is, but that meaning be found. The important lies in the desire to search for an answer." - T.S. Eliot

"For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice." - T.S. Eliot

"Without standards there can be no improvement." - Taiichi Ohno

"Life makes love look hard." - Taylor Swift

"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." - Teddy Roosevelt

"Give your stress wings and let it fly away." - Terri Guillemets

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." - Terry Pratchett

"Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley." - Theodore Roethke

"Confidence thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred with dust and sweat... because there is no effort without error or shortcoming." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

"I am a part of everything that I have read." - Theodore Roosevelt

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Complaining about a problem without posing a solution is called whining." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Failing is hard, but it is far worse never to have tried to succeed." - Theodore Roosevelt

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it." - Thich Nhat Hanh

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - Thomas Aquinas

"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." - Thomas Carlyle

"Endurance is patience concentrated." - Thomas Carlyle

"There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune." - Thomas Carlyle

"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak." - Thomas Carlyle

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." - Thomas Edison

"The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense." - Thomas Edison

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

"Your worth consists in what you are, not in what you have." - Thomas Edison

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t." - Thomas Edison

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison

"Ideation without execution is just hallucination." - Thomas Edison

"A good archer is known not by his arrows but by his aim." - Thomas Fuller

"Health is not valued till sickness comes." - Thomas Fuller

"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use." - Thomas J. Watson

"If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate." - Thomas J. Watson

"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson

"If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I still have to wear it off." - Thomas Jefferson

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

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done." - Thomas Jefferson

"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope." - Thomas Merton

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark." - Thomas Paine

"The real man smiles on trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." - Thomas Paine

"Character is much easier kept than recovered." - Thomas Paine

"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us." - Thomas Paine

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates." - Thomas Szasz

"There is nothing like listening to show you that the world outside your head is different from the one inside it." - Thornton Wilder

"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage." - Thucydides

"One shot at a time, one game at a time, one season at a time." - Tiger Woods

"If you love what you do, you’ll work harder than you ever thought possible, but the tools will feel light in your hands." - Tim Cook

"The greatest risk is not taking one." - Tim Fargo

"Fear shows up on its own. Doubt has to be invited." - Tim Grover

"Winning is changing the combination on the lock while you are celebrating having gotten it open." - Tim Grover

"If you are not mentally ready, you will not become physically prepared." - Tim Grover

"Winning will cost you everything you have, but will reward you with so much more." - Tim Grover

"You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass." - Timber Hawkeye

"Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose." - Tom Krause

"If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade." - Tom Peters

"If I never let myself feel too good, maybe I’ll never get hurt too badly." - Tom Rusk

"The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in one’s determination." - Tommy Lasorda

"Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins." - Tony Hsieh

"Nothing can drag you down if you're not holding on to it." - Tony Robbins

"It’s not knowing what to do, it’s doing what you know." - Tony Robbins

"We often don’t get what we want; we get what we have to have." - Tony Robbins

"Complexity is the enemy of execution." - Tony Robbins

"It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently." - Tony Robbins

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach." - Tony Robbins

"Passion is the genesis of genius." - Tony Robbins

"If you don't set standards for what you accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve." - Tony Robbins

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." - Tony Robbins

"Your future is determined by your decision to succeed." - Tony Robbins

"Energy flows where attention goes." - Tony Robbins

"Success without fulfillment is the ultimate failure." - Tony Robbins

"If you are what you do, then when you don’t you aren’t." - Trevor Moawad

"No road is long with good company." - Turkish Proverb

"A man’s just as good as his word. It takes twice as long to build bridges you’ve burned." - Tyler Childers

"I’ve learned you have to keep chipping away at the thing for weeks, months, and years to get a result you’re really proud of." - Tyler Green

"Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast." - U.S. Navy SEALs

"My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent." - Ulysses S. Grant

"In life people don’t burn out because of what they do. They burn out because life makes them forget why they do it." - Unknown

"Your body can stand almost anything. It’s your mind that you have to convince." - Unknown

"I trained 4 years to run 9 seconds, and people give up when they don't see results in 2 months." - Usain Bolt

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well..." - Václav Havel

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs." - Vance Havner

"To change what you get, you must change who you are." - Vernon Howard

"You cannot escape a prison if you don’t know you’re in one." - Vernon Howard

"Change your opinions, but keep to your principles; change your leaves, but keep to your roots." - Victor Hugo

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

"Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life." - Victor Hugo

"Perseverance: the secret of all triumphs." - Victor Hugo

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances." - Viktor E. Frankl

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." - Viktor Frankl

"What is to give light must endure burning." - Viktor Frankl

"In between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." - Viktor Frankl

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the struggling and striving for some goal worthy of him." - Viktor Frankl

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

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all." - Vince Lombardi

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect." - Vince Lombardi

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." - Vince Lombardi

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there." - Vince Lombardi

"Without the fundamentals, the details are useless." - Vince Lombardi

"There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. ." - Vince Lombardi

"The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work." - Vince Lombardi

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win." - Vince Lombardi

"The measure of ourself is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible." - Vince Lombardi

"Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence." - Vince Lombardi

"Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but because of lack of commitment." - Vince Lombardi

"The scoreboard doesn’t lie and is the only place you can see the truth." - Vince Lombardi

"The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have." - Vince Lombardi

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." - Vincent van Gogh

"Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." - Vincent Van Gogh

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore." - Vincent Van Gogh

"A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it." - Vincent Van Gogh

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?." - Vincent Van Gogh

"If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent van Gogh

"Death twitches my ear. Live he says, I am coming." - Virgil

"Fortune favors the bold." - Virgil

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning how to dance in the rain." - Vivian Greene

"Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards." - Vladimir Nabokov

"The most important decision you can make is to be in a good mood." - Voltaire

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking." - Voltaire

"Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals." - Voltaire

"I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health." - Voltaire

"Tend your own garden." - Voltaire

"Thinking will not overcome fear, but action will." - W. Clement Stone

"Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them." - W. Clement Stone

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper." - W.B. Yeats

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it." - W.M. Lewis

"Faith is more than just thinking something is true, but thinking it is true so much that we act on it." - W.T. Purkiser

"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes." - Wade Boggs

"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." - Wallace Stevens

"First, think. Second, believe. Third, dream. And finally, dare." - Walt Disney

"It’s easy to make decisions when you know what your values are." - Walt Disney

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

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future." - Walt Disney

"Keep moving forward; opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

"The art of art, the glory of expression, and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity." - Walt Whitman

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." - Walt Whitman

"Be curious, not judgmental." - Walt Whitman

"Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves." - Walter Anderson

"The greatest pleasure in life is achieving what people say you cannot." - Walter Bagehot

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott

"The engine is the heart of an airplane, but the pilot is its soul." - Walter Raleigh

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken." - Warren Buffet

"The most important skill a person can work on is the ability to communicate effectively." - Warren Buffett

"In looking for people to hire, look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you." - Warren Buffett

"In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield." - Warren Buffett

"By far, the best investment you can make is in yourself." - Warren Buffett

"The only limits you have are the limits you believe." - Wayne Dyer

"Judging another defines yourself, not them." - Wayne Dyer

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice." - Wayne Dyer

"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy." - Wayne Dyer

"Our intention creates our reality." - Wayne Dyer

"If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t, you will see obstacles." - Wayne Dyer

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with." - Wayne Dyer

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself." - Wayne Dyer

"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick the dew-wet red berries in a cup." - Wendell Berry

"What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but a first step towards something better." - Wendell Phillips

"The best way to ride a horse is in the direction it is going." - Werner Erhard

"Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness." - Werner Herzog

"The will to do it. (Wernher von Braun’s 5-word answer to JFK about going to the moon)." - Wernher von Braun

"The quality of your life is built on the quality of your decisions." - Wesam Fawzi

"It’s better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared." - Whitney Young

"You are only one decision from a totally different life." - Wilfred A. Peterson

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." - Will Durant

"You have to go out on a limb sometimes, because that’s where the fruit is." - Will Rogers

"Even if you’re facing the right direction, you’ll get run over if you just sit there!." - Will Rogers

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment." - William Arthur Ward

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity." - William Arthur Ward

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present but never giving it." - William Arthur Ward

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses." - William Arthur Ward

"Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved." - William Arthur Ward

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." - William Arthur Ward

"It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills." - William Arthur Ward

"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk." - William Arthur Ward

"Adversity causes some to break; others to break records." - William Arthur Ward

"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." - William Arthur Ward

"God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say thank you?." - William Arthur Ward

"Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them." - William Arthur Ward

"Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory." - William Barclay

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." - William Blake

"It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." - William Blake

"Eternity is in love with the creation of time." - William Blake

"To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." - William Butler Yeats

"Time is a storm in which we are all lost." - William Carlos Williams

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more." - William Cowper

"Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work." - William Crawford

"Instead of being simply satisfied to make friends and draw your pay, it is worth doing your duty, to the best of your ability, for duty's sake; and in doing this, while the indolent sleep, you may accomplish something that will be of real value to humanity." - William Crawford Gorgas

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict." - William Ellery Channing

"You are the master of your fate. You are the captain of your soul." - William Ernest Henley

"Contentment is the enemy of invention." - William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

"Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief." - William Faulkner

"Beware of the person who can’t be bothered by details." - William Feather

"Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance." - William Gaddis

"Time moves in but one direction, memory in another." - William Gibson

"Humble souls are fearful of their own strength." - William Gurnall

"Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline." - William Hague

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." - William Hazlitt

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory." - William Hazlitt

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much." - William Hazlitt

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too." - William Hutchison Murray

"Pursue what is right, not what is expedient." - William James

"Procrastination is attitude's natural assassin. There's nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task." - William James

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

"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it." - William James

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another." - William James

"The soul is stronger than its surroundings." - William James

"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings." - William James

"Begin to be now what you will be hereafter." - William James

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." - William James

"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James

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

"A person has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize them." - William James

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." - William James

"Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power." - William James

"Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves." - William Law

"The world is a looking glass and gives back to everyone the reflection of their own face." - William Makepeace Thackeray

"Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterward?." - William Makepeace Thackeray

"The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life." - William Morris

"True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body." - William Penn

"It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one." - William Penn

"Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." - William Penn

"Without change, there is no innovation, creativity or incentive for improvement." - William Pollard

"Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer." - William S. Burroughs

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare

"Have more than you show, speak less than you know." - William Shakespeare

"A thing is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

"Expectation is the root of all heartache." - William Shakespeare

"Our bodies are our gardens - our wills are our gardeners." - William Shakespeare

"Listen to many, speak to a few." - William Shakespeare

"Be great in act as you have been in thought." - William Shakespeare

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare

"This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare

"No legacy is so rich as honesty." - William Shakespeare

"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?." - William Shakespeare

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." - William Shakespeare

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." - William Shakespeare

"Tears water our growth." - William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." - William Shakespeare

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." - William Wallace

"What is pride? A whizzing rocket that would emulate a star." - William Wordsworth

"Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. ." - Willie Nelson

"What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time." - Winona LaDuke

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." - Winston Churchill

"A kite rises highest against the wind, not with it." - Winston Churchill

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it." - Winston Churchill

"A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty." - Winston Churchill

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few." - Winston Churchill

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." - Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is." - Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility." - Winston Churchill

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential." - Winston Churchill

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure." - Winston Churchill

"It is not enough that we do our best, for at times we must do what is required." - Winston Churchill

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"It is not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something." - Winston Churchill

"If you’re going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill

"The only virtue we must hold onto is courage. It guarantees all others." - Winston Churchill

"No crime is so great as daring to excel." - Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill

"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about." - Winston Churchill

"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout all your life." - Winston Churchill

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." - Winston Churchill

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time." - Winston Churchill

"The shorter way to do many things is to only do one thing at a time." - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything." - Wyatt Earp

"See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body." - Yagyu Munenori

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the moment. One’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"If you don’t know where you’re going, you might end up some place else." - Yogi Berra

"You cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water." - Zen Proverb

"A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms." - Zen Shin

"The first step toward finding the truth is to recognize what is not true." - Zeno of Elea

"The wise win before they fight, while the ignorant fight to win." - Zhuge Liang

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great." - Zig Ziglar

"You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself." - Zig Ziglar

"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

"When you do the things you have to do when you have to do them, the day will come when you can do the things you want to do when you want to do them." - Zig Ziglar

"I believe success is achieved by ordinary people with extraordinary determination." - Zig Ziglar

"Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute." - Zig Ziglar

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal, you do not change your decision to get there." - Zig Ziglar

"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you." - Zig Ziglar

"If you don’t Take a chance, you don’t Have a chance." - Zig Ziglar

"Every choice you make has an end result." - Zig Ziglar

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and then and only then can you expect to win." - Zig Ziglar

"Positive thinking won’t let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. ." - Zig Ziglar

"When you focus on problems, you will have more problems. When you focus on possibilities, you will have more opportunities. ." - Zig Ziglar

"Your life is the result of the choices you have made. If you don’t like your life, start making better choices." - Zig Ziglar

"Be firm on principle, but flexible on method." - Zig Ziglar

"You cannot always keep what you have, but you can keep what you are." - Zig Ziglar

"A goal properly set is at least partially reached." - Zig Ziglar

"You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility." - Zig Ziglar

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." - Zig Ziglar

"Most people have the commitment of a kamikaze pilot on their 46th mission." - Zig Ziglar

"Failure is an event, not a person." - Zig Ziglar

"Be strong, but not rude; Be kind, but not weak; Be bold, but not bully; Be humble, but not timid; Be proud, but not arrogant." - Zig Ziglar

"Don’t judge me by my past, for I don’t live there anymore." - Zig Ziglar

"I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it... you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants." - Zig Ziglar

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile." - Zig Ziglar