“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

- Willie Nelson

"Good habits formed at youth make all the difference."

- Aristotle

“Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, or to do anything, never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.”

- Ulysses S. Grant

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

- Marcus Aurelius

“It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts.”

- Ella Fitzgerald

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike: When you are the anvil, bear; When you are the hammer, strike.”

- Edwin Markham

“The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.”

 - Anne-Louise Germaine Necker aka Madame de Staël

Madame de Stael

“Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.”

- Rollo May

"There never was night that had no morn."

- Dinah Craik

"Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses."

- Bernd Heinrich

"It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we measure a great man."

- George Henry Lewes

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

- Thornton Wilder

"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."

- Anatole France

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

“Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.”

- Herbie Hancock

“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.”

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”

- William Hazlitt

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”

- Kofin Annan

“Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow”

- Robert Kiyosaki

“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”

- Ram Dass

"Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

- Colin Powell

“If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.”

- Thomas Jefferson

"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted."

- Washington Irving

“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”

- Walter Chrysler

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

- Abraham Maslow

“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

- Rene Descartes

“One must work and dare if one really wants to live.”

- Vincent van Gogh

"High expectations are the key to everything."

- Sam Walton

“Be different, stand out, and work your butt off.”

- Reba McEntire

“There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in or you're out. There's no such thing as life in-between.”

- Pat Riley

"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."

- Viktor Frankl