"A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

- John Keats

“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

- Jean Giraudoux

“It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.”

- Bill Gates

"Self-discipline begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

- Napoleon Hill

“It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.”

- Brenda Ueland

“Talent alone won't make you a success; Neither will being in the right place at the right time, unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are you ready?'”

- Johnny Carson

"It"s not bad to say: 'My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger' ...What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate, to pretend that you...like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

- Doris Lessing

“The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.”

- Joyce Brothers

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

- Chuck Swindoll

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

- Arthur Miller

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.”

- Oscar Wilde

“He who has a why can endure any how.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

- E. E. Cummings

“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"...Achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That is nice, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.”

- Helen Hayes

“Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.”

- John Lennon

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

- Frank Herbert

“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.”

- James Whitcomb Riley

"The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time and second, doing something about it.”

-Ray Kroc

"The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire."

- Ferdinand Foch

“Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.”

- Faith Baldwin