Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes 

— Benjamin Disraeli

Problems are not stop signs‚ they are guidelines  

— Robert H. Schuller

A quitter never wins and winner never quits 

— Napoleon Hill

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be 

— Horace Bushnell

Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter 

— B C Forbes

The mind is like a parachute; it only functions when it’s open 

— Anonymous

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye 

— Mary Shelley

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well 

— Anonymous

Life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself 

— Anonymous

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy 

— Oliver Goldsmith

Happiness depends on ourselves 

— Aristotle

You can change your health‚ you can change your relationships‚ you can change your income‚ you can change anything  

— Bob Proctor

The grass may look greener on the other side of the fence, but it's just as hard to cut 

— "Little Richard", Entertainer

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day 

— Thornton Wilder

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds 

— Albert Einstein

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing 

—  John Powell

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia 

— Anonymous

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration 

— Evan Esar

There’s no abiding success without commitment  

— Tony Robbins