“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
–Thomas A. Edison
“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”
–David Brinkley
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
–Ayn Rand
“Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.”
–Aristotle
“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
–G.K. Chesterton
“It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
–Dale Carnegie
“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”
–Jim Rohn
“There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
–Christopher Morley
“All happiness depends on courage and work.”
–Honoré de Balzac
“Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.”
–Roy Goodman
“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.”
–Henry Ford
“Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
–Booker T. Washington
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
–Mahatma Gandhi
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
–Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
–Helen Keller
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
–Maya Angelou
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
–Amelia Earhart
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
–Napoleon Hill
“The only way to do great work is to love what you do.”
–Steve Jobs
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
–Jamie Paolinetti
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
–Albert Einstein
“I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
–Stephen Covey
“Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
–Eleanor Roosevelt
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
–Plutarch
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
–Maya Angelou
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
–Henry Ford
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
–Charles Swindoll
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
–Oprah Winfrey
“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
–Les Brown
“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.”
–Rosa Parks
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
–Helen Keller
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
–Vincent van Gogh
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
–Jimmy Dean
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.”
–George Addair
Keith Maginn, author 