The Buddha 

 "What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind".

 Edith Armstrong 

 "I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number".

 Cherie Carter-Scott

 "Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible".

Robert H. Schuller 

"It takes but one positive thought, when given a chance to survive and thrive, to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts".

 Edith Armstrong 

 "I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal-and soon they'll forget my number".

 Robert H. Schuller 

 "It takes but one positive thought, when given a chance to survive and thrive, to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts".

 W. Clement Stone 

 Elaine Maxwell 

 "My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own. I am the force. I can clear any obstacle before me or  can be lost in the maze. My choice, my responsibility. Win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny".

 Napoleon Hill

"There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

 Lord Thorneycroft  

 "Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved."

 Walter Bagehot

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

Thomas Edison

"The three great essentials to achieving anything worthwhile are; first, hard work, second, stick-to-it-iveness, and third, common sense."

 James Allen

"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not remain so if you only perceive an ideal and strive to reach it. You cannot travel within and stand still without."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

 "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

 Lord Thorneycroft  

"Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn’t do one thing—like the architect who didn’t build St Paul’s. I didn’t quite build St Paul’s, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved."

John Wooden

"Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

Walter Bagehot

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

William James  

"Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."

 Norman Vincent Peale

"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."

 Dr. Robert Anthony

"Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours."

George Bernard Shaw

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Jacob Bronowski

"We have to understand that the world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye... The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Christian Bovee

"Activity and sadness are incompatible."

 Marie Beyon Ray

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake..."

 Dr. Robert Schuller  

"You are what you think about all day long."

Bruce Barton

"When you're through changing, you're through."

William Faulkner

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

Walt Disney

"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret - curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable."

 Virginia Woolf

"Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself."

 Earl Nightingale

"You become what you think about."

 St. Francis of Assisi

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

 Helen Keller

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence."

Roger Birkman 

"The reality of life is that your perceptions - right or wrong -  influence everything else you do.  When you get a proper  perspective of your perceptions, you may be surprised how  many other things fall into place."

Henry Miller

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry David Thoreau

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

Calvin Coolidge

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant."

 Charles Victor Cherbuliez

"What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully."

Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Introspection is self-improvement and therefore introspection is self-centeredness. Awareness is not self-improvement. On the contrary, it is the ending of the self, of the “I,” with all its peculiar idiosyncrasies, memories, demands, and pursuits. In introspection there is identification and condemnation. In awareness there is no condemnation or identification; therefore, there is no self-improvement. There is a vast difference between the two."

 Richard M. DeVos

"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible. "

 George Horace Lorimer

"It's good to have money and the things money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things money can't buy.

 Ezra Pound

"With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands."

 Alice Foote MacDougall

"It takes real courage to do battle in the unspectacular task. We always listen for the applause of our co-workers. He is courageous who plods on, unlettered and unknown.... In the last analysis it is this courage, developing between man and his limitations, that brings success."

 Dale Carnegie

"You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you."

 Mark Twain

"Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

 Leo Buscaglia 

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile,  a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the  smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to  turn a life around."

 Katherine Mansfield

"Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."

 Charles Baudelaire

"To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply."

 Henry David Thoreau

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success."

Tom Blandi

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force."