The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self
Montaigne

The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes,
but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker
Helen Keller

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student
Jim Rohn

Keep some souvenirs of your past, or how will you ever prove it wasn't all a dream?
Ashleigh Brilliant

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure
Paulo Coelho

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart
Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang except those that sang best
Henry Van Dyke

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one
Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life
Steve Jobs

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant
Robert Louis Stevenson

The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings
Okakura Kakuzo

I am - the two most powerful words in the world,
for whatever we put after them becomes our reality
Susan Howson

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist,
or accept the responsibility for changing them
Denis Waitley

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit
Helena Rubinstein

There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment,
and learn again to exercise his will and his personal responsibility
Albert Schweitzer

If you don't take charge of shaping your own destiny,
others will apply their agenda to you
Eric Allenbaugh

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn
Benjamin Franklin

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A dream is just a dream.
A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline
Harvey Mackay

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm
Henry David Thoreau

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
Denis Waitley

The older you get, the more you realize that kindness is
synonymous with happiness
Lionel Barrymore

Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault.
Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state
and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem
Eric Allenbaugh

Love and magic have a great deal in common.
They enrich the soul, delight the heart.
And they both take practice
Nora Roberts

If you know peace, then you thrive;
if you know contentment, then you are rich
Su Shi

Anger is one letter short of danger!
Denis Waitley

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post
L. Thomas Holdcroft

Scatter seeds of kindness everywhere you go;
Scatter bits of courtesy - watch them grow and grow.
Gather buds of friendship, keep them till full-blown;
You will have more happiness than you have ever known.
Amy R. Raabe

Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself
that way and so will other people
Norman Vincent Peale

Faith is the hostess that will not entertain doubt
Jenna Wright

Often we set out to make a difference in the lives of others,
only to discover we have made a difference in our own
Ellie Braun-Haley

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit
is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Norman Vincent Peale

We don't know who we are until we see what we can do
Martha Grimes

Deeds not stones, are the true monuments of the great
Motley

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind
Bob Proctor

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Are you a thermometer or a thermostat?
A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation.
But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment
Nido Qubein

Winning doesn't always mean being first.
Winning means you're doing better than you've ever done before
Bonnie Blair

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the
whole staircase, just take the first step
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors.
A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things
Jim Rohn

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today
William Allen White

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go
to work on you. If you go to work on your plan,
your plan will go to work on you.
Whatever good things we build end up building us
Jim Rohn

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia
Alexis Carrel

There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island
... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life
Walt Disney

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

I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over.
Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center
Kurt Vonnegut Jnr

A mentor is someone who sees more talent and ability within you,
than you see in yourself, and helps bring it out of you
Bob Proctor

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers
Deepak Chopra

You can't have a better tomorrow if you
are thinking about yesterday all the time
Charles F. Kettering

There is no difficulty that enough love will not
conquer, no disease that enough love will not heal,
no door that enough love will not bridge
Emmet Fox

We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on
the bridge of faith even before we get to them
Sterling W. Sill

When you speak of someone or about someone,
you should speak as though they were in the room with you.
The ears that you speak to today are attached to the
mouth that could relay the message tomorrow
William 'Biddy' Allen

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said
Peter Drucker

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never
be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far
John Maxwell

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches
Carolyn Gilmore

The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see,
and knows what the mind cannot understand
Robert Vallett

Surely it's no coincidence that the word listen
is an anagram of the word silent!
Author Unknown

There are two ways of spreading light -
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it
Edith Wharton

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward
Soren Kierkegaard

Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination
William Bridges

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 others spend it for you
Rod McKuen

Make sure the outside of you is a good reflection of the inside of you
Jim Rohn

A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view
Wilma Askinas

A hug is like a boomerang, you get it back right away
Bill Keane

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination
Nelson Mandela

Motivation is what gets you started.
Habit is what keeps you going
Jim Rohn

Be very careful what you say to yourself
because someone very important is listening...YOU!
John Assaraf

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is,
not according to what he has
Henry Ward Beecher

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us,
but in what we make out of what they do to us
Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others
than you can by what others say about him
Leo Aikman

Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Be bold. When you embark for strange places,
don't leave any of yourself safely on shore.
Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory
Alan Alda

There isn't a ruler, a yard stick or a measuring tape in the entire world
long enough to compute the strength and capabilities inside you
Paul J Meyer

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing with new eyes
Marcel Proust

I find that it is not the circumstances in which we are placed,
but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our comfort
Elizabeth T. King

Dedicate yourself to continuous personal improvement
you are your most precious resource
Brian Tracy

Learning is like rowing upstream, if you stop, you go backwards
Author Unknown

The sad part about life is we tend to comment only on those who do it wrong
and neglect to balance it with praise for those who do it right
Keith Ready

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant.
It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest
Georgia O'Keeffe

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway
Jerome Cummings

You have to be willing to grow.
Growth is different from something that happens to you:
You produce it. You live it
Bruce Mau

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice
George Eliot

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself
Julia Cameron

No one limits your growth but you. If you want to earn more, learn more.
That means you'll work harder for a while; that means you'll work longer for a while.
But you'll be paid for your extra effort with enhanced earnings down the road
Tom Hopkins

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened;
vision cleared; ambition inspired, and success achieved
Helen Keller