“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
Keith Maginn, author 