“Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.”

- Colin Powell

“There comes a time in each life, like a point of fulcrum. At that time, you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.”

- John Fowles

“The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”

- Erich Fromm

“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”

- Hans Hofmann

“Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.”

- Hugh Walpole

“Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.”

- William Cobbett

“A compliment is verbal sunshine.”

- Robert Orben

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

- Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss)

“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?"

- James Allen

“Do the things you believe in, in the name of love, and know that you aren't alone. We all have doubts and fears.”

- Carole King

“Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.”

- John Ruskin

“My motto was always to keep running. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly..., the only thing to do was keep running.”

- Hank Aaron

“It takes all the running you can do, to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”

- Lewis Carroll

"Excess on occasion can be exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."

- W. Somerset Maugham

“Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.”

- Harold S. Geneen

"It doesn't happen all at once. You become. It takes a long time."

 - Margery Williams

The Velveteen Rabbit

"The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going."

- David Starr Jordan

“No matter how far a person can go, the horizon is still way beyond...”

- Zora Neale Hurston

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

- J. K. Rowling as Albus Dumbledore

"If you don't get what you want it is a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price."

- Rudyard Kipling

“Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason.”

- Albert Pike

“If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?”

- Charles de Lint

"Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter."

- Benjamin Disraeli

“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”

- Philip K. Dick

“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”

- Thomas Carlyle