Jay Z ~

" I move forward, the only direction; can't be scared to fail, search and perfection. "

Patrick Overton ~

" When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and you take the first step into the darkness of the unknown you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon or you will be taught to fly. "

Jackie Robinson ~

" A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. "

Henry Rollins ~

" I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. "

Bernard M. Baruch ~

" Those who mind don't  matter, and those who matter don't mind. "

John Wesley ~

" Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. "

Alan Lewis ~

" If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.

Michelangelo ~

" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "

John F. Kennedy ~

" We need men who can dream of things that never were. "

Earl Nightingale ~

" Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality. "

Thomas Fuller ~

" All things are difficult before they are easy. "

Thomas Jefferson ~

" I'm a greater believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "

B. J. Gupta ~

" Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances. "

Saji Ijiyemi ~

" Praying without working is faith inaction. "

Norman Vincent Peale ~

" Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. "

Charles Kingsley ~

" There are two freedoms, the false is where one is free to do what he likes, and true where one is free to do what he ought. "

Bill Cosby ~

" I don't know the key to success. But the key to failure is trying to please everybody. "

William Osler ~

" Throw away all ambition beyond that of doing the days work well. The traveler on the road to success live in the present, heedless of taking thought for the marrow. Live neither in the past nor the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition. "

Martin Luther King Jr. ~

" Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think. "

Martin Luther King Jr. ~

" I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. "

Martin Luther King Jr. ~

" All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. "

Kemmy Nola ~

" Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains two descriptions: could have and should have. Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you once made. If you want different results, make different choices. "

Win Borden ~

" If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything. "

Richard Burton ~

" False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. "

Helen Keller ~

" Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all----the apathy of human beings. "

Paulo Coelho ~

" My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing beauty of life once more. It's happened before, it will happen again, I'm sure. When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive----I'll find love again. "

Conrad Hall ~

" You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. "

Dr. Phil ~

" Anyone can do something when they want to do it. Really successful people do things when they don't want to do it. "

Chanakya ~

" Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution. "

Oprah Winfrey ~

" Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. "

Walter Bagehot ~

" A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. "

Canrad Hilton ~

Founder of Hilton Hotels 

" Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit. "

Tony DeLiso ~

" Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens. "

Jeremy Taylor ~

" Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. "

Sharon Salzberg ~

" It's never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on the old view. When you flip the switch in the attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. It's never too late to take a moment to look. "

Everyday Life Lessons ~

" In life you'll realize there is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you, and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best in you. "

Alan Alda ~

" You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. "

Dale Carnegie ~

" Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have. "

Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~

" Always continue to climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it. "

Tracy Kidder ~

" Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. "

Dennis Brown ~

" The only difference between a Good Day and a Bad Day is your ATTITUDE! "

Alexander The Great ~

" There is nothing impossible to him who will try. "

Anon ~

" When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, when the road you're trudging seems all uphill, when the funds are low and the debts are high and you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest! if you must-but never quit. Life is queer, with its twist and turns, As every one of us sometimes learns, and many a failure turns about When he might of won if he'd stuck it out; Stick to your task, though the pace seems slows You may succeed with one more blow.
  Success is failure turned inside out The silver tint of the clouds of doubt And you may never can tell how close you are, It may seems afar; So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit - It's when things seem worse that YOU MUST NOT QUIT. "

Napoleon Hill ~

" First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in  your imagination. "

Maya Angelou ~

" There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. "

Julia Cameron ~

" What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: which do we want more of? "

Ellen DeGeneres ~

" The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgement. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift. "

Winston Churchill ~

" We make a living by what we get. But we make a life by what we give. "