- "Successful people are nothing more than people who have developed the power to believe in themselves and in what they do. Never devalue yourself." (David J. Schwartz)
- "What does not kill me makes me stronger." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
- "Man is born to live, not to prepare to live." (Boris Pasternak)
- "Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of man." (Benjamin Disraeli)
- "It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped." (Anthony Robbins)
- "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." (Thomas Edison)
- "We will either find a way, or make one." (Hannibal)
- "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." (T. S. Eliot)
- "The unexamined life is not worth living." (Plato)
- "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
- "Our aspirations are our possibilities." (Robert Browning)
- "When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer—say, traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly." (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
- "In short, deep in our hearts we know that freedom is the reverse of fear." (Marilyn Ferguson)
- "The truly creative individual is always ready to abandon old classifications and to recognize that life, especially their own life—absolutely unique—is rich in new possibilities." (Frank Barron)
- "Faith is the choice of the noblest alternative." (Dean Inge)
- "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." (Goethe)
- "The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become." (Charles Du Bois)
- "There must be more to life than having everything." (Maurice Sendak)
- "The expression 'Press on!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." (Calvin Coolidge)
- "Here is a test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't." (Richard Bach)
- "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams... he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." (Henry David Thoreau)
- "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it." (Buddha)
- "Your work in life is your ultimate seduction." (Pablo Picasso)
- "When love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes heaven drowsy with the harmony." (William Shakespeare)
- "A happy heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love." (Mother Teresa)
- "You are your own friend and your own enemy." (Bhagavad Gita)
- "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself." (Soren Kierkegaard)
- "It's not easy to face my problems one by one when they refuse to line up." (Ashleigh Brilliant)
- "All the wonders you seek are within yourself." (Sir Thomas Browne)
- "If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." (Henry Ford)
- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- "Never confuse knowledge with wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you build a life." (Sandra Carey)
- "The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you." (Anthony Robbins)
- "If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." (Marcus Aurelius)
- "It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well." (René Descartes)
- "The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act, we strengthen the thread, add another filament to it, until it becomes a huge cable and binds us, irrevocably, in thought and action." (Orison Swett Marden)
- "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." (Archimedes)
- "Just as a fletcher makes straight his arrow, a master directs his straying thoughts." (Buddha)
- "I began to understand that thinking is nothing more than the process of asking and answering questions... Therefore, if we want to change the quality of our lives, we must change our habitual questions." (Anthony Robbins)
- "The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause." (Mark Twain)
- "To know the meaning of words is to know the men." (Confucius)
- "There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." (Carl Jung)
- "Nothing happens unless we dream first." (Carl Sandburg)
- "Aim high; aim far. Your goal is the sky; your target, the stars." (Inscription at Williams College)
- "Where there is no vision, the people perish..." (Proverbs 29:18)
- "Habit is the best of servants, or the worst of masters." (Nathaniel Emmons)
- "Men are wise not in proportion to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw)
- "Eliminate the cause and the effect ceases." (Miguel de Cervantes)
- "Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances." (Bruce Barton)
