Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
-- Dean Naylor
Worry never takes the sorrow out of tomorrow, it just saps today of its strengh.
-- Anon
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person
to fool.
-- Richard Feynman
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no
laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
-- Lord Chesterfield
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every
difficulty.
-- Winston Churchill
To the world you’re just one person but to one person you could mean the world.
-- Anon
This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
-- Mary Pickford
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
-- Anon
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
-- Robert Bresson
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
-- General George S. Patton
Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.
-- Wally 'Famous' Amos
If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
-- William Arthur Ward
We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released.
-- Jean Houston
The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get
lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters
is that we embark.
-- Barbara Hall
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strenght, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
-- Vincent T. Lombardi
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something
well is to enjoy it.
--Pearl S. Buck
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 have lived through this horror.
I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot
do.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand
there, make it happen.
-- Lee Iacocca
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What
you'll discover will be wonderful. What you're discover will be yourself.
-- Alan Alda
I don't fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding,
saying "Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?
-- General George S. Patton
Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the
swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar
you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your
level of determination.
-- Grace Lichtenstein
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames
of achievement.
-- Foster C. McClellan