The essential thing is not knowledge, but character 

— Joseph Le Conte

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? 

— Lord Chesterfield

Live out of your imagination‚ not your history 

—  Stephen Covey

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself 

— Henry Ward Beecher

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash 

— George S. Patton

We don’t see things the way they are, we see things the way we are 

— Talmud

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting 

— Elizabeth Bibesco

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving 

— Dennis Waitley

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra 

— Jimmy Johnson

Everything is okay in the end‚ if it’s not ok‚ then it’s not the end 

—  Author Unknown

The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself  

— Mark Caine

It’s always about appreciation. It pulls things in‚ it attracts support 

—  Dr John Gray

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life  

— Tony Robbins

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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 is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it’s about learning to dance in the rain  

— Anonymous

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy 

— Malcolm Forbes

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other  

— Walter Elliot

Fortune favours the brave 

— Publius Terence

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

— Thornton Wilder