"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson


"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
- Annie Dillard


"Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
- Aristotle


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


"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


"Action is the antidote to despair."
- Joan Baez


"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


"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another."
- John Dewey


"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
- Leo Tolstoy


"For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
- Mary Kay Ash


"I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
- Thomas Jefferson


"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."
- Ivy Baker Priest


"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
- Robert Byrne


"Obstacles are those things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
- Hannah More


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


"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers."
- M. Scott Peck


"People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams."
- Norman Cousins


"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
- Winston Churchill


"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
- Mohandas K. Gandhi


"The future depends on what we do in the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi


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


"The less men think, the more they talk."
- Baron Montesquieu


"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probably reason why so few people engage in it."
- Henry Ford


"Change your thoughts and you change your world"
- Norman Vincent Peale


"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. "
- Einstein


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


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


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


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


"The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose."
- Michel de Montaigne


"The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize."
- Richard Monckton Milnes


"Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right."
- Aldous Huxley