"Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth."
-Julie Andrews
"For every failure, there's an alternate course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour."
-Mary Kay Ash
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
-Sally Berger
"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
-H. Jackson Brown
"Accept responsibility for you life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
-Les Brown
"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."
-Les Brown
"We cannot discover new oceans until we have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
-Muriel Chen
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
-Winston Churchill
"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."
-Richard M. DeVos
"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."
-Fitzhugh Dodson
"Be miserable - or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."
-Wayne Dyer
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-Thomas Edison
"Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
-Albert Einstein
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
-George Eliot
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
-Albert Ellis
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."
-William Feather
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you are right."
-Henry Ford
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
-Henry Ford
"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
-Benjamin Franklin
"Two roads diverged in a wood and I, I took the one less traveled by; and that has made all the difference"
-Robert Frost
"The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs...one step at a time."
-Joe Girard
"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
-Wayne Gretzky
"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."
-Napoleon Hill
"It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents."
-Eric Hoffer
"We are continuously faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
-Lee Iacocca
"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives."
-William James
"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
-Helen Keller
"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow."
-Helen Keller
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
-Charles F. Kettering
"Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible."
-George Claude Lorimer
"The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach."
-Benjamin Mays
"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude towards it, for that determines our success or failure."
-Norman Vincent Peale
"When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it."
-Norman Vincent Peale
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
-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
"You see things and you say, "Why?" But I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"
-George Bernard Shaw
"The indispensable first step of getting the things you want out of this life: decide what you want."
-Ben Stein
"I think there is something more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision."
-W. Clement Stone
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
-Henry David Thoreau
"20 years from now you will be more disappointed by things you didn't do than by the things that you did do."
-Mark Twain
"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."
-Brian Tracy
"Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."
-Denis Waitley
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
-Denis Waitley
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves --' Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people do not feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us, it is in everyone. And as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others."
-Marianne Williamson (partially quoted in "Coach Carter" and "Akeelah and the Bee")
"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing."
-Alexander Woollcott
"You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses."
-Ziggy
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily."
-Zig Ziglar
