| "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all." - Miguel De Cervantes |
| "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." - Dale Carnegie |
| "It is far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory, nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, Make Me Feel Important. Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life." - Mary Kay Ash |
| Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain |
| "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned." - Buddha |
| "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." - Mohandas K. Gandhi |
| "A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner." - English proverb |
| "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan |
| "The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse." - Carlos Castaneda |
| "I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." - Aristotle |
| "The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Buddha |
| "Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure." - Benjamin Disraeli |
| "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you." - Carl Sandburg |
| "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" - John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "When you play it too safe, you are taking the biggest risk of your life...Time is the only wealth we are given." - Barbara Sher |
| "The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love." - William Wordsworth |
| "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had?" - Henry James |
| "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person." - David M. Burns |
| "Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean, do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage. How are we to be patient in dealing with our neighbor's faults if we are impatient in dealing with our own? He who is fretted by his own failings will not correct them. All profitable correction comes from a calm, peaceful mind." - St. Francis de Sales |
| "Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream." - Harvey Mackay |
| "You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself." - Warren B. Bennis |
| "The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." - Mark Twain |
| "Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan |
| "The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us." - Quentin Crisp |
| "It [competitive athletics] teaches the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid. To be proud and unbowed in defeat yet humble and gentle in victory. And to master ourselves before we attempt to master others. And to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. And to give the predominance of courage over timidity." - General Douglas MacArthur |
| "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - Pearl S. Buck |
| "Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for; but rather something to be achieved." - William Jennings Bryan |
| "I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure." - Glen Seaborg |
| "Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little." - Edmund Burke |
| "Will is the measure of power. To a great genius there must be a great will. If the thought is not a lamp to the will, does not proceed to an act, the wise are imbecile. He alone is strong and happy who has a will. The rest are herds. He uses; they are used. He is of the Maker; they are of the Made. Will is always miraculous, being the presence of God to men. When it appears in a man he is a hero, and all metaphysics are at fault." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday." - Alexander Pope |
| "Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure." - William Saroyan |
| "What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can." - Henry David Thoreau |
| "The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time." - W.J. Davison |
| “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” - Aristotle |
| "That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. It is dearness only which gives everything its value." - Thomas Paine |
| "One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Sigmund Freud |
| "Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will." - George Bernard Shaw |
| "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." - Nelson Mandela |
| "Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self-respect springs." - Joan Didion |
| "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." - Goethe |
| "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris |
| Go often to the house of a friend, for weeds choke the unused path." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness." - Brian Tracy |
| "Things may come to those who wait ... but only the things left by those who hustle." - Abraham Lincoln |
| "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." - Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties." - Harry Truman |
| "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe |
| "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot |
| "Ability may take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there." - John Wooden |
| "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is." - Erich Fromm |
| "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; great minds rise above them." - Washington Irving |
| "It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." - Samuel Smiles |
| "Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness." - Jean Vanier |
| "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu |
| "While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful." - H.G. Wells |
| "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing." - George Bernard Shaw |
| "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." - George Washington, on Friends |
| "Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense." - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Edison |
| "I have learned this at least by my experiment: if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau |
| "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." - Mahatma Gandhi |
| "Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." - Jim Horning |
| "The strongest of all warriors are these two -- Time and Patience." - Leo Tolstoy |
| "Don't do things half-assed. If a thing is worth doing at all, it's worth doing as well as you can possibly do it. Pick out something you think is worthwhile and do it or work at it with passion. Do it with all your might." - Hugh Young |