Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other 

— Abraham Lincoln

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant 

— Bayard Taylor

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about 

—  John Demartini

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune 

— Jim Rohn

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

— Oliver Goldsmith

I know for sure that what we dwell upon is who we become 

— Oprah Winfrey

I walk slowly‚ but I never walk backward  

— Abraham Lincoln

There is no failure except in no longer trying 

— Elbert Hubbard

You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water 

— Rabindranath Tagore

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions 

— Wendell Holmes

There is no happiness except in the realisation that we have accomplished something 

— Henry Ford

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow 

— Doug Firebaugh

People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is‚ goals that do not inspire them  

— Tony Robbins

We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts 

— Madeleine Lengle

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? 

— Abraham Lincoln

Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul 

— Democritus

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist‚ that is all 

—  Oscar Wilde

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do  

— Henry Ford

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way 

— Christopher Morley