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"Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful."

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations."

— Ralph Charell

"The best person is the one who humbles himself the more his rank increases."

— Prophet Muhammad

"I happened on the idea of fitting an engine to a bicycle simply because I did not want to ride crowded trains and buses."

— Soichire Honda

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan."

— John F. Kennedy

"Hardship, poverty are the best incentives, and the best foundation, for the success of man."

— Bradford Merrill

"If you wish your life were different... do your life differently."

— Terence Houlihan

"If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents."

— Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel,'Pope Francis

"When you blame others, you prevent yourself from being able to do proper self-evaluation, which is critical to self-improvement."

— Craig Impelman

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

— Buddha

"Focus on your goal. Don't look in any other direction."

— Anonymous

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

— Thomas A - Edison

"In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don't have the first, the other two will kill you."

— Warren Buffett

"But if you can learn to take criticism in stride, with some genuine reflection on how you can use it as a basis for improvement, you can come to realize that criticism can actually be a gift."

— Anonymous

"Many so-called failures represent only a temporary defeat that may prove to be a blessing in disguise."

— Napoleon Hill

"Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end."

— Saint Ignatius

"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

— Napoleon Hill

"Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort."

— Paul J. Meyer

"A person who only thinks negatively will never move forward."

— Unknown

"The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities."

— James Allen

"Be good so they can't ignore you."

— Steve Martin

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?"

— Carol Dweck

"O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"

— William Shakespeare

"It's not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest."

— Binet

"Every moment of one's existence, one is growing into more or retreating into less."

— Norman Mailer

"Energy, Intelligence and Integrity are key criteria for success."

— Conor Neill

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

— H. G. Wells

"People with growth mind-set persist in the face of setbacks."

— Carol Dweck

"Awaken the curiosity within'you."

— Anonymous

"We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives."

— John F. Kennedy

"I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it."

— Est'e Lauder

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."

— Swami Vivekananda

"Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will."

— James Stephenson

"Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude .. a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines."

— James Lane Allen

"A positive attitude is a person's passport to a better tomorrow."

— Anonymous

"Inspired by the success of others"

— Unknown

"You need a lot of effort and talent to produce greatness."

— Tom Rath

"Honesty is very expensive gift. Do not expect it from cheap people."

— Warren Buffett

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master"

— Leonardo Da Vinci

"Sometimes one pays most for things one gets for nothing."

— Einstein

"Your living is determined not so much by what life bring to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."

— John Homer Miller

"The human brain remains plastic even in adult life, allowing it to adapt when we learn new tasks."

— Professor Eleanor Maguire

"People with a growth mind-set learn from criticism, people with a fixed mind-set ignore useful negative feedback."

— Carol Dweck

"Mistakes: it's not the Failures that define us so much as how we respond to them."

— Farnam Street

"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you."

— Tom Hopkins

"Happiness is a state of inner fulfilment, not the gratification of inexhaustible desires for outward things."

— Matthieu Ricard

"Failure is not fun - It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse."

— J. K. Rowling

"Emotional Intelligence is invaluable for business, essential for education, and transformational for personal life."

— Daniel Goleman

"Each person has a unique genetic endowment."

— Robert Sternber

"Success is not only about wealth, power and fame"

— Unknown

"To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will. I will drink the ocean, says the persevering soul; at my will mountains will crumble up."

— Swami Vivekananda

"And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

— Steve Jobs

"Challenges are disguised opportunities"

— Unknown

"The most important decision we make on a day-to-day basis is our choice of attitude, it either keeps us moving ahead or cripples our progress. It fuels our fire or assaults our hope. When our attitude is right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme and no challenge too great."

— Bob Gass, UCB

"Many pursue no fixed goal, but are tossed about by ever changing designs by a fickleness which is shifting in constant and never satisfied with itself."

— Seneca

"Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths."

— Miguel de Cervantes

"Success is not a destination, it's about growth"

— Unknown

"All miracles start with a single thought. There was a moment in time where the light bulb, the telephone and a flying machine were just seed possibilities in the minds of the inventors."

— Steve Rizzo

"Necessity is the mother of taking chances."

— Mark Twain

"Emotional self-control, delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness underlies accomplishment of every sort."

— Daniel Goleman

"The fun of being alive is realizing that you have a talent and you can use it every day, so it grows stronger'."

— Lon Centlivre

"Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal."

— Earl Nightingale

"If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far."

— Daniel Goleman

"The No. 1 reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbours."

— Napoleon Hill

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

— Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Attitude is the mental state or position you take regarding your life and affairs."

— Natasha Dern

"Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you can imagine it."

— George Lucas

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

— Napoleon Hill

"Changing our perspective is often the key to finding success in seeming failure. Optimistic thinking has sometimes gotten a bad rap as being unrealistic, but research has found that we can indeed live happier, healthier, and more successful lives if we can learn to discover the opportunities in problems. These problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage. They provide opportunities for personal growth and can stimulate our creativity for finding better ways to live."

— C. Manz

"Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise."

— Harvey Mackay

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

— C. S. Lewis

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."

— Bruce Lee

"A happy man is too satisfied with the present to think too much about the future."

— Einstein

"The greedy man is inconsistent with a whole world set before him."

— Sa'Di

"Feeling gratitude isn't born in us - it's something we are taught, and in turn, we teach our children."

— Joyce Brothers

"Ambition is what drives us to give that little bit extra, run that extra yard, make that extra effort. Because deep down we know that giving that little bit extra is what sets us apart from the ordinary person."

— Anonymous

"A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him."

— Brendan Francis

"I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together."

— Queen Elizabeth II

"Most failures are simply challenges in progress that can provide a foundation for success."

— C. Manz

"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"In everything, give thanks."

— Thessalonians 5:18

"Tiger was born into the home of an expert golfer and confessed 'golf addict' who loves to teach and is eager to begin teaching his new son as soon as possible."

— Geoff Colvin

"There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions."

— Charles Proteus Steinmetz

"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right."

— Mario Cuomo

"Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember, the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you."

— Zig Ziglar

"The positive mind-set can be learned through a few simple routines and habits."

— Carol Dweck

"Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it."

— Charles Swindoll

"No bird soars in a calm."

— Wilbur Wright

"Let your curiosity lead you down a road that is less travelled."

— Anonymous

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain."

— William Jennings Bryan

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves"

— Tyron Edwards

"The Ability to Read and Act on Signals"

— Unknown

"If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don't have to be pushed. The vision pulls you."

— Steve Jobs

"When you get to practice against the best, it brings the best out of you."

— Marshawn Lynch

"Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

— Les Brown

"We do not learn from experience, we learn from reflecting on our experience."

— John Dewey

"You learn ten times more in a crisis than during normal times."

— Geoff Colvin

"The best vision is insight."

— Malcolm Forbes

"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers."

— Voltaire

"I measure success by how many people love me and whether the people close to me are happy"

— Warren Buffett

"You aren't going to find anybody that's going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance."

— Lou Holtz

"People with the fixed mind-set expect everything good to happen automatically."

— Carol Dweck

"The difference between the impossible and possible lies in a person's determination."

— Tommy Lasorda

"I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Emotional intelligence is the ability to read and understand our own emotions and those of the people around us, then use this awareness to manage our behaviour and relationships."

— Travis Bradberry

"Ford's adherence to his vision of the mass-market car and how to materialize that vision was instrumental in both his early success in growing Ford Motor Company as well as his later failure to respond in a timely and effective manner to rapid innovation in the marketplace."

— Patrick Vlaskovits, Entrepreneur

"People with fixed mind-set ignore useful negative feedback and feel threatened by the success of others. As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential."

— Carol Dweck

"A growth mindset looks for opportunity in everything, so there's no room for complaints."

— Carol Dweck

"There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."

— W. Clement Stone

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out"

— Steve Jobs

"If you can't be thankful for what you receive, be thankful for what you escape."

— Anonymous

"The more you learn, the more you earn."

— Frank Clark

"Create a vision for yourself for the long-term future. The more clearly your vision of health, happiness, and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you. When you create a clear mental picture of where you are going in life, you become more positive, more motivated, and more determined to make it a reality. You trigger your natural creativity and come up with idea after idea to help make your vision come true."

— Brian Tracy

"IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership."

— Daniel Goleman

"If you really want the key to success, start by doing the opposite of what everyone else is doing."

— Brad Szollose

"Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life."

— Christiane Northrup

"Setbacks and feedback aren't about our abilities, they are information you could use to help yourself learn."

— Carol Dweck

"It takes the hammer of persistence to drive the nail of success."

— John Mason

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. If that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."

— Og Mandino

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there."

— Zig Ziglar

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

— Denis Waitley

"If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfilment in every circumstance."

— Ralph Marston

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

— George Bernard Shaw

"God always has patience."

— Pope Francis

"Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day."

— Jim Rohn

"Man errs as long as he struggles."

— Johann von Geothe

"People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves."

— Robin Sharma

"I have had a lot of setbacks that I have learned from."

— Susan Wojcicki

"What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."

— Bruce Lee

"Curiosity is the one thing invincible in nature."

— Freya Stark

"No doubt emotional intelligence is rarer than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can't ignore it."

— Jack Welch

"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

— George Bernard Shaw

"A growth mind-set is a belief system that suggests that one's intelligence can be grown or developed with persistence effort and a focus on learning."

— Carol Dweck

"Leaders must constantly emphasize that mistakes are learning opportunities rather than cause for embarrassment or punishment."

— Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

"A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more."

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"A good teacher is like a candle that consumes itself while lighting the way for others"

— Giovanni Ruffini

"The difference between successful an unsuccessful people lies in the abilities called emotional intelligence which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself."

— Daniel Goleman

"Create your own definition of success, recognize that other people are working on their own accomplishments. Their achievements don't have to diminish or minimize your own."

— Amy Morin

"Failure can trigger a torrent of painful emotions - hurt, anger, shame, even depression. As a result, most of us try to avoid mistakes; when they do happen, we try to sweep them under the rug."

— Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

"Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations."

— Unknown

"No pressure no diamonds"

— Mary Case

"If there is a good will, there is great way."

— William Shakespeare

"Endurance is the crowning quality, and patience all the passion of great hearts."

— James Russell Lowell

"Those who are at the mercy of impulse, who lack self-control suffer a moral deficiency: The ability to control impulse is the base of will and character."

— Daniel Goleman

"To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd."

— Plato

"Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers."

— Christian Bovee

"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements."

— Napoleon Hill

"The other thing exceptional people seem to have is a special talent for converting life's setbacks into future successes."

— Carol Dweck

"The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy."

— Denis Waitley

"The best mechanic in a factory may fail as a foreman for lack of social intelligence."

— Thorndike

"True humility is staying teachable, regardless of how much you already know."

— Anonymous

"Sweat plus sacrifice equals success."

— Charles Finley

"The Beatles (1962), we don't like their sound ' guitar music is on the way out."

— Decca Records

"Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms."

— William Shakespeare

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."

— Jacob A. Riis

"Have that sort of energy, that sort of will; work hard, and you will reach the goal."

— Swami Vivekananda

"Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success."

— Napoleon Hill

"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder."

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming life is best for ' the body and mind."

— Einstein

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

— William James

"It is only through seeming failure that most of life's greatest successes are achieved. Usually, failure or success is almost entirely in the eye of the beholder."

— C. Manz

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

— Napoleon Hill

"Humility is crucial to real success. Humility is keeping your feet firm on the ground in spite of the achievements and triumphs you've gained."

— Unknown

"Curiosity is the ability to seek and acquire new knowledge, skills, and ways of understanding the world. It is central to what motivates us to learn and what keeps us learning throughout our lives. Curiosity lights our lives, inspires us to seek out answers."

— Unknown

"Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat."

— Anonymous

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

— Hugh Downs

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

— Vince Lombardi

"Their dream is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

— Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google.

"It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life."

— Emmet Fox

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

— Oscar Wilde

"What we do with what we know is what will separate us today in a world where information is abundant."

— Thomas Friedman

"There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile."

— Zig Ziglar

"Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure Norman"

— Vincent Peale

"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left."

— Oscar Levant

"Failure, even for individuals who have a growth mind-set can still be painful, but it doesn't define you as a learner. Failure reveals problems that must be faced, dealt with and learned from. Failure should provide feedback and a solution to be followed."

— Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats

"Average performers believe their errors were caused by factors outside their control: My opponent got lucky; the task was too hard; I just don't have any natural ability for this. Top performers, by contrast, believe they are responsible for their errors."

— Geoff Colvin

"Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before."

— Pat Summitt

"Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculptures, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington."

— John C. Maxwell

"The more you dream the more you achieve."

— Michael Phelps

"I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism."

— Charles Schwab

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable."

— Sir Thomas Buxton

"Ambitious beliefs lead to ambitious goals. Limiting beliefs lead to impotent goals. You will rarely accomplish more than what you set out to, and can't hit the target if you're not aiming for it"

— www.zenpsychiatry.com

"People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there's patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights."

— Pete Carroll

"The one who stops growing because he thinks he knows it all, and has everything is still far from reaching his potential and would fall when storms come."

— Anonymous

"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."

— Charles Kendall Adams

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

— Malcolm X

"You shouldn't gloat about anything you've done; you ought to keep going and find something better to do."

— David Packard

"Change your thoughts and change your world."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails."

— Robert Half

"Even if you have the qualifications on paper, a lack of social intelligence could lead to strained or ruined relationships, as well as lost opportunities."

— Will Chou

"The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself."

— Wallace Wattles

"I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one and enjoy with his family the blessings of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."

— Henry Ford's vision

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without blowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle."

— Frederick Douglass

"We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory."

— Cicero

"There are three kinds of people: Those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who ask, 'What happened?'"

— Casey Stengel

"If you want to turn your life around, try thankfulness. It will change your life mightily."

— Gerald Good

"As it is our nature to be more moved by hope than fear, the example of one we see abundantly rewarded cheers and encourages us far more than the sight of many who have not been well treated disquiets us."

— Faranciso Gucciardini

"Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it."

— George S. Halas

"Don't let other people tell you what you want."

— Pat Riley

"Whatever you are thinking'.THINK BIGGER!"

— Tony Hsieh

"I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step, if that is of no avail I will take another, and yet another. In truth, one step at a time is not too difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated, will complete any undertaking."

— Og Mandino

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason."

— J.P. Morgan

"When I feel tired, I just think about how great I will feel, once I finally reach my goal."

— Michael Phelps

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

— Henry David Thoreau

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood."

— Plutarch

"Everyone is a teacher and everyone is a learner."

— George Couros

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

— Charlotte Bront

"Greatness isn't born, it is grown."

— Daniel Coyle

"People who accomplished great things often combined a passion for a single mission with an unswerving dedication to achieve that mission, whatever the obstacles and however long it might take."

— Duckworth

"A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage."

— Ed Land

"I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments."

— Roger Federer

"It isn't our position, but our disposition, that makes us happy."

— Anonymous

"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious."

— Phillips Brooks

"You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you"

— Walt Disney

"A growth mind-set leads individuals to believe learning comes from struggling with new challenges, thus enabling improved performance over time."

— Carol Dweck

"But when people are in a growth mind-set, difficulty is a natural part of learning, so they are more likely to take it in stride and find new strategies that work better."

— Carol Dweck

"A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others."

— Dr Joseph Collins

"I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

— Mia Hamm, gold-medal soccer player

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

— Cynthia Ozick

"One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute."

— William Lyon Phelps

"Just do it."

— Nike

"Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them."

— Vaibhav Shah

"Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation."

— Plato

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well."

— Voltaire

"No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Choose growth over comfort, your success depends on it."

— Margie Warrell

"The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessing and not his cash."

— Anonymous

"Everybody needs encouragement. None of us achieves anything without help. The great achievers in history became all that they were because of the people in their lives. It was Tolkein who encouraged Lewis, an avowed atheist, to explore Christianity, ultimately leading to his conversion. It was Lewis who encouraged Tolkein to continue writing fiction and to seek publication. Were it not for the friendship and mutual encouragement, the world wouldn't have received the finest writing in apologetic of the twentieth century (The chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis) and one of the finest fantasy works (The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien)."

— The author

"Positive thinking is essential for success."

— unknown

"To see things in the seed, that is a genius"

— Lao Tzu

"There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out."

— Lolo Jones,

"Have a mentality of abundance."

— Steve Covey

"Knowledge and information are crucial to creation."

— George Couros

"Success isn't about avoiding failure. It's about learning from failure."

— Unknown

"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."

— Thomas Huxley

"It is as true as night follows day that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does."

— Napoleon Hill

"The sun doesn't stop shining because of a few clouds block its sparkle. You shouldn't stop radiating your potential for the sake of a few irrational and self-limiting doubts."

— Unknown

"Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory."

— Herbert Kaufman

"Patience is a nobler motion than any deed."

— C. A. Bartol

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream"

— C. S. Lewis

"An organisation's ability to learn and translate that learning into action is the ultimate competitive advantage."

— Jack Welch

"Clear feedback is the cornerstone of improvement."

— Sir David Brailsford

"Intellectual capital will always trump financial capital."

— Paul Tudor Jones

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

— Steve Jobs

"We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we can take it, what we do with it and that is what really counts in the end."

— Joseph Fort Newton

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."

— Vince Lombardi

"Most people fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will."

— Orison Sweet Marden

"Deliberate practice is a structured and specific set of personalized development activities."

— Geoff Colvin

"Insecure people put others down to raise themselves."

— Habeeb Akande

"People with growth mind-set fosters a hunger for feedback and a greater ability to deal with setbacks and significantly better performance over time."

— Carol Dweck

"Don't be afraid of failure, don't be afraid to innovate, don't be afraid of new arenas."

— Elon Musk

"Daily : Think positive. Read positive. Listen positive. Talk positive. Affirm positive. Watch positive. Practice positive. Make yourself positive."

— Honoree Corder

"Don't underestimate the power of a vision. McDonald's founder, Ray Kroc, pictured his empire long before it existed, and he saw how to get there. He invented the company motto - 'Quality, service, cleanliness and value', and kept repeating it to employees for the rest of his life."

— Kenneth Labich

"With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance all things are attainable."

— Sir Thomas Buxton

"Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals."

— David A. Bednar

"On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom."

— Michel de Montaigne

"Despite their early failures, they went on to achieve greatness:"

— Unknown

"Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed."

— Vincent van Gogh

"Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted."

— Mary McCarthy.

"When men are rightly occupied, their amusement grows out of their work, as the colour-petals out of a fruitful flower."

— John Ruskin

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

— Thomas Jefferson

"You need to do more than setting a goal"

— Unknown

"A goal without a plan is a wish."

— Larry Elder

"Records are always made to be broken no matter what they are. Anybody can do anything that they set their mind to."

— Michael Phelps

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

— Paul Boese

"My personal goals are to be happy, healthy and to be surrounded by loved ones."

— Kiana Tom

"Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad."

— Unknown

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions."

— Ken Blanchard

"Never Feel ..Threatened by the success of others...Mind-set: The New Psychology of Success."

— Carol Dweck

"The principle of life is that life responds by corresponding; your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."

— Raymond Charles Barker

"No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goal."

— Brian Tracy

"People with the growth mind-set believe that basic qualities, including intelligence, can be strengthened like muscles."

— Carol Dweck

"Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Half effort does not produce half results, it produces no results. Work, continuous work and hard work is the only way to accomplish results that last."

— Hamilton Holt.

"Urgent necessity prompts many to do things."

— Miguel de Caervantes

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

— Jesse Owens

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

— Edmund Burke

"Change your mind and you change your life."

— Jeffrey Keller

"Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of."

— William Shakespeare

"Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right."

— Pope Francis

"A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence."

— Jim Watkins

"There is a kind of victory in good work no matter how humble."

— Jack Kemp

"The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more."

— Charlie Munger

"People with fixed mind-set give up easily when faced with obstacles."

— Carol Dweck

"In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn't read all the time. - none. Zero."

— Charlie Munger

"Attitude: the mental filter through which you see the world; the way you view something or tend to behave towards it."

— Jeffrey Keller

"The best possible investment you can make in your future is an education."

— Unknown

"He who wrestles with us, strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper."

— Edmund Burke

"Learn to be thankful for what you already have, while you pursue all that you want."

— Jim Rohn

"Learn to see the difference between constructive and destructive criticism."

— Anonymous

"You can achieve anything you want in life if you have the courage to dream it, the intelligence to make a realistic plan, and the will to see that plan through to the end."

— Sidney A. Friedman

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

— John Ruskin

"Setbacks are just learning experiences."

— Beth Brooke

"I have learned to make a lot of effort and sacrifice for this sport, and now I can say it's paying me back. So it is important to always show determination and effort on the pitch."

— Stephan El Shaarawy.

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."

— Emmet Fox

"Things are in their essence, what we choose to make them. A thing according to the mode in which one looks at it"

— Oscar Wilde

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

— Mae Jemison

"People with growth mind-set believe that with effort through increased learning they can succeed."

— Carol Dweck

"To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life."

— Eric Hoffer

"Life is what you make it. So why not make it a beautiful one full of happiness and joy."

— Anurag Prakash Ray

"Individuals with growth mind-set, who believe that intelligence and talents can be enhanced through effort, regard mistakes as opportunities to learn and improve. By contrast, individuals with fixed mind-set, who believe that intelligence and talents are innate and unchangeable, think mistakes signal a lack of ability"

— Carol Dweck

"Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on."

— Steve Jobs

"Three failures in a row, did you not think I need to pack it in? I will never give up, I will just keep going."

— Elon Musk

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them."

— Ralph G. Nichols

"No one is ready for a thing, until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish."

— Napoleon Hill

"Empathy and social skills are social intelligence, the interpersonal part of emotional intelligence."

— Daniel Goleman

"It is usually best to be generous with praise and cautious with criticism."

— Anonymous

"Success starts with attitude. Make sure yours is positive, expectant, upbeat, and infectious ... and pretty much at all times."

— Honoree Corder

"People with a growth mind-set believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mind-set, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new."

— Carol Dweck

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

— Einstein

"Challenges in life are inevitable, but the deciding factor is how we handle setbacks and challenges. people with a growth mind-set welcome challenges and setbacks. they believe that with effort through increased learning and good strategies such as practice, perseverance, motivation they can succeed."

— Carol Dweck

"If you create a vision for your life, doors will open."

— Anonymous

"If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised."

— E M Coran

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."

— Willie Nelson

"A Journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."

— Lao Tzu

"The only way to learn about life is by exploring. T.S. Eliot"

— Unknown

"You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom."

— Herbie Hancock

"Your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ."

— Carol Dweck

"Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's made of."

— Josh Billings

"Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them."

— William Blake

"The happiest people on earth don't have the best things in life, they just make the best of everything."

— Anonymous

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

— Oscar Wilde

"Believing that all children can, with effort, persistence, and motivation succeed, is the heart of this belief."

— M. Ricci, Mind-set in the classroom

"Emotional intelligence accounts for 80 percent of career success."

— Daniel Goleman

"The world around us is constantly evolving and adapting. Success isn't achieved by staying idle; you've got to adapt and overcome challenges around you."

— Chris Quiocho

"Feedback can be the information that drives the formative process, or it can be a stumbling block that derails the process."

— Brookhart

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

— Napoleon Hill

"Build me a son who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory."

— Douglas MacArthur

"What can any of us do with his talent but to develop his vision, so that through frequent failure we may learn better what we have missed in the past."

— William Carlos Williams

"Grit is perseverance, or stick-to-it-iveness. All difficult, long-term achievements require it."

— Carol Dweck

"I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work."

— Harry S Truman

"I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become."

— Emma Watson

"The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."

— Einstein

"I've found that nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks. Fall forward. Every failed experiment is one step closer to success. You've got to take risks. You will fail at some point in your life. Accept it. You will lose - You will embarrass yourself. You will suck at something. There is no doubt about it. Never be discouraged. Never look back. Give everything you've got. And when you fall throughout life, fall forward."

— Denzel Washington, University of Pennsylvania

"Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life, in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're man enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well."

— Dwight D Eisenhower's mother

"You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. Blaming, cursing, hating doesn't help you, it hurts you."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"IQ by itself is not a very good predictor of performance."

— Hunter (1984)

"Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Real integrity stays in place whether the test is adversity or prosperity."

— Charles Swindoll

"For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up"

— Dwight D Eisenhower

"The truest mark of being born with great qualities is being born without envy."

— Francois de la Rochefoucauld

"Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

— Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections."

— Daisaku Ikeda

"If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen."

— Iyanla Vanzant

"You are your greatest asset. Put your time, effort and money into training, grooming, and encouraging your greatest asset."

— Tom Hopkins

"Read 500 pages like this every week. That's how knowledge builds up, like compound interest."

— Warren Buffett

"Failures can be a powerful way to learn and ironically provide the means for life's greatest breakthroughs and successes."

— C. Manz

"Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will."

— John D. MacDonald

"We all know that criticism can sometimes be hard to take, but we also learn very early on that it usually makes for a stronger and better business."

— Jet Blue

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

— Will Rogers

"A goal with no plan is just a wish."

— Anonymous

"Whenever it is possible, a boy should choose some occupation which he should do even if he did not need the money"

— William Lyon Phelps

"Progress is born of doubt and inquiry."

— Robert G. Ingersoll

"The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but wat he becomes by it."

— John Ruskin

"Self-belief: I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

— Muhammad Ali

"I knew enough medicine and physiology to know it wasn't a physical barrier, but I think it had become a psychological barrier. My attitude was that it can be done, and it will be done soon, and I'd rather it were done here. I thought it would be right for Britain to try to get this."

— Roger Bannister on breaking the 4-minutes mile the first time.

"Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good."

— Malcolm Gladwell author and sociologist

"There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."

— Maya Angelou, contemplating courage in the face of evil

"Intelligence is the aggregate or global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally and to deal effectively with his environment reflects this broader view"

— Wechsler

"Through humility and concrete love, on the other hand, power, the highest, the strongest one, becomes a service, a force for good."

— Pope Francis, Ted Talk

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."

— Muhammad Ali

"People with growth mind-set embrace challenges and mistakes and confront their deficiencies."

— Carol Dweck

"The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings."

— Henry Ward Beecher

"Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion."

— Jack Welch

"Deliberate Practice: Not just 'Practice Makes Perfect' but Deliberate Practice"

— Unknown

"It is having the intensity and will to devote the majority of your time to seeking out the difficult and/or painful things you don't do well and then getting to work on improving in those areas. It also includes having others tell us exactly what's not right after each unsuccessful attempt so we can keep working at it until we get better."

— Geoff Colvin

"Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?"

— Peter McWilliams

"To fail is a natural consequence of trying, to succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again."

— David Viscott

"Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry."

— Oliver Goldsmith

"In truth, the only difference between those who have failed and those who have succeeded lies in the difference of their habits. Good habits are the key to all success. Bad habits are the unlocked door to failure."

— Og Mandino

"I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"People with fixed mind-set dislike and resist useful negative feedback."

— Carol Dweck

"It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does."

— Peter Senge

"A moment of patience in a moment of anger saves you a hundred moments of regret."

— Anonymous

"Creative vision'is developed by the free and fearless use of one's imagination. It is not a miraculous quality with which one is gifted or is not gifted at birth."

— Napoleon Hill

"Every time we push out of our comfort zone to learn something new and difficult, the neurons in our brain can form new, stronger connections, and over time we can get smarter."

— Carol Dweck

"Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts ' it's what you do with what you have left"

— Hubert H Humphrey

"Kodak engineer Steve Sasson invented the digital camera in the company's R&D labs in the 1970s but Kodak failed to lead the digital photography revolution because it failed to adapt"

— The Economist

"The man who has no imagination has no wings."

— Muhammad Ali

"Education will open doors. Talent will open worlds. But it is hard work that will enable you to accomplish more than you ever imagined."

— Mary Barra, Stanford University

"Gratitude and attitude are not challenges; they are choices."

— Robert Braathe

"Change takes effort. And the reality is, most people don't want to put in effort to better their life."

— Cesar Millan

"Practice Golden Rule Management In Everything You Do. Manage Others The Way You Would Like To Be Managed."

— Brian Tracy

"The very important thing you should have is patience."

— Jack Ma

"People with fixed mind-set are only interested in hearing feedback that reflected directly on their talent and present ability, but tuned out information that could help them learn and improve."

— Carol Dweck

"Example has more followers than reason."

— Christian Bovee

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours."

— Henry David Thoreau

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall at last unveil."

— John Ruskin

"You want to be extra rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedbacks, particularly from friends."

— Elon musk

"When educating the minds of our youth, we must not forget to educate their hearts."

— Dalai Lama

"Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers."

— Mark Gorman

"There has never been a statue erected to honour a critic."

— Zig Ziglar

"His teacher was the legendary philosopher Aristotle."

— Unknown

"A wise man turns chance into good fortune."

— Thomas Fuller

"Humility does not mean placing yourself under other people's feet or firing down your passion. Humility is setting yourself free from self-centeredness and ego."

— Anonymous

"In the last decade or so, science has discovered a tremendous amount about the role emotions play in our lives. Researchers have found that even more than IQ, your emotional awareness and abilities to handle feelings will determine your success and happiness in all walks of life, including family relationships."

— John Gottman - Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

"My country gave me schooling, independence of action and opportunity for service ' I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay."

— Herbert Hoover

"Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted."

— David Bly

"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

— Oscar Wilde

"This'growth mind-set' is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts."

— Carol Dweck

"75 percent'of careers are derailed for reasons related to emotional competencies, including inability to handle interpersonal problems; unsatisfactory team leadership during times of difficulty or conflict; or inability to adapt to change or elicit trust."

— Center for Creative Leadership

"Curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

— Walt Disney

"Super-successful people know more than others do because they're constantly working to increase their self-awareness. They vow constant growth. Whenever they have a spare moment, they fill it with self-education."

— Travis Bradberry

"The best in business have boundless curiosity and open minds."

— Robin Sharma

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

— Og Mandino

"Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once."

— Drew Houston, Dropbox founder and CEO

"Maybe I was just born with a little bit of vocals or natural talent, but I feel like I taught myself. I just started taking vocal lessons to just work on my breathing, my vowels and stuff."

— Bryson Tiller

"He who is greedy is always in want."

— Horace

"No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things."

— Joel Osteen

"One of the most important steps you can take toward achieving your greatest potential in life is to learn to monitor your attitude and its impact on your work performance, relationships and everyone around you."

— Keith Harrell

"There is no failure. Only feedback."

— Robert Allen

"If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Thinking you can achieve something'unleashes the force that allows it to'happen."

— Honor'e Corder

"There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"Success can be determined by the depths of one's fortitude and not solely from the depths of one's bank account."

— Tyrone McGraw

"Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them."

— Brene Brown

"A man who is afraid will do anything."

— Jawaharlal Nehru

"In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have."

— Ralph Marston

"So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can't be done. But all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach. There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, with belief, with confidence and trust in yourself and those around you, there are no limits."

— Michael Phelps

"When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect."

— Peace Pilgrim

"Learning is by nature, curiosity."

— Plato

"Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting."

— Emmet Fox

"Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude."

— Lou Holtz

"We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt."

— Dorothy Day

"Sandwich criticism between two layers of praise."

— Mary Kay Ash

"Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny."

— C. S. Lewis

"Time is like a river that carries us forward into encounters with reality that requires us to make decisions. We can't stop our movement down this river and we can't avoid those encounters. We can only approach them in the best possible way."

— Ray Dalio, author

"Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for."

— Zig Ziglar

"Curiosity is life."

— Mark Parker

"After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?"

— Brian Tracy

"You want to be extra-rigorous about making the best possible thing you can. Find everything that's wrong with it and fix it. Seek negative feedback."

— Elon Musk

"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."

— Brian Tracy

"Going the extra mile'is the action of rendering more and better service than that for which you are presently paid. When you go the extra mile, the Law of Compensation comes into play."

— Napoleon Hill

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

— Les Brown

"Run your own race, don't compare yourself to other people."

— Unknown

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

— Joel A. Barker

"It is our positive attitude which believes persistence pays off and that your efforts are compounding. It's only a matter of time before the desired results present themselves."

— Unknown

"When we are curious about a topic, it is easier to learn"

— Neuron (Journal)

"I am in love with hope."

— Mitch Albom, author

"Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren't grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more."

— Roy T. Bennett

"It's not magic. Visualization makes our goals more real and reminds us of the beauty of our dreams."

— Unknown

"What did they know? They knew that human qualities, such as intellectual skills, could be cultivated through effort."

— Carol Dweck

"Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group ' Despite poor school grades and dyslexia, Richard is a successful business entrepreneur worth 1 billion (April 2018)."

— Unknown

"From errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."

— Publilius Syrus

"My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out."

— Zosia Mamet

"Adaptability is key."

— Marc Andreessen

"I don't accept defeat as final. Only death is final, and even then I hope for a reprieve."

— Phil Gramm

"Jesus, please teach me to appreciate what I have before time forces me to appreciate what I had."

— Susan L Lenzkes

"Turn Your Problems into Opportunities."

— Jeffrey Keller

"The trouble with most of us is that we'd rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"Don't compromise yourself. It's all you've got."

— Janis Joplin

"Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"The biggest quality in successful people, I think, is an impatience with negative thinking .. my feeling was even if it's as bad as I think it is, we'll make it work."

— Edward McCabe

"Millions of small actions create a wave of new possibility."

— Anonymous

"Success is dependent on effort."

— Sophocles

"You must dive deep into the sea to get the pearls. What good does it do to dabble among the waves near the shore and assert that the sea has no pearls?"

— Sai Baba

"People with well-developed emotional skills are also more likely to be content and effective in their lives, mastering the habits of mind that foster their own productivity; people who cannot marshal some control over their emotional life fight inner battles that sabotage their ability for focused work and clear thought."

— Daniel Goleman

"Mistakes are learning opportunities"

— Unknown

"If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

— Margaret Thatcher

"Pride is concerned with WHO is right. Humility is concerned with WHAT is right."

— Ezra Taft Benson

"Wealth and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

— Plato

"Criticism, when delivered thoughtfully, helps teams perform better and helps people improve their behaviour."

— Mel Robbins

"Success'is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

— author Maya Angelou

"Patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."

— Eknath Easwaran

"But, unlike money, when you use knowledge or give it away, you don't lose it.'Transferring knowledge anywhere in the world is free and instant. Its value compounds over time faster than money. It can be converted into many things, including things that money can't buy, such as authentic relationships and high levels of subjective well-being. It helps you accomplish your goals faster and better. It's fun to acquire. It makes your brain work better. It expands your vocabulary, making you a better communicator. It helps you think bigger and beyond your circumstances. It puts your life in perspective by essentially helping you live many lives in one life through other people's experiences and wisdom."

— The five hour rule by Michael Simmons

"Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Pessimism is an absence of hope or curiosity in how we can create a better future."

— Mitch Albom, author

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind"

— William James

"When you listen with empathy to another person, you give that person psychological air."

— Stephen R. Covey

"Be always sure you're right, then go ahead."

— Davy Crocket

"Our favorite attitude should be gratitude."

— Zig Ziglar

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life that you want, you're going to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

— Kevin Ngo

"Just like fine pearls obtained from the depths of the ocean, pearls of wisdom require you to put in the effort to find them and to use them in your life."

— Sai Baba

"Common quotes on gratitude"

— Unknown

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

— Robert Stevenson

"Deliberate practice: continuous Feedback"

— Unknown

"Academic success requires more than ability. It requires the application of ability and the growth of ability through sustained hard work."

— Carol Dweck

"Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance."

— Samuel Johnson

"Learn to control the climate around you. Negativity is contagious."

— Bob Gass, UCB

"Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can."

— Chris Evert

"He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding."

— William Shakespeare

"She let it be known that IQ for her was the ultimate measure of your intelligence and your character. (underestimating potential"

— Carol Dweck on her teacher, Mrs. Wilson

"You'll be able toget the most out of your team if you know how to build relationships with them and bring them into your overall strategic goals."

— Will Chou

"The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men."

— Charles H Fowler

"Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy, because we will always want to have something else or something more."

— David Steindl-Rast

"When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them."

— Plato

"All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer."

— Thomas Fuller

"I never could have achieved the success that I have without setting physical activity and health goals."

— Bonnie Blair

"Dream big and your behavior will follow. Think small and you'll play small."

— Robin Sharman

"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do."

— Kobe Bryant

"People with fixed mind-set avoid new challenges because they think they may fail and people will know that they are not smart. They think every situation calls for a confirmation of their intelligence, personality, or character. Every situation is evaluated:'Will I succeed or fail? Will I look smart or dumb? Will I be accepted or rejected? Will I feel like a winner or a loser?"

— Carol Dweck

"Whatever the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

— Richard Bach

"Envy is the art of counting other fellow's blessing instead of your own"

— Harold Coffin

"Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

— Golda Meir

"Without humility, there can be no humanity."

— John Buchan

"Make your vision so clear that your fears become irrelevant."

— Anonymous

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep in them - a desire, a dream and a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."

— Muhammad Ali

"Approach the start of each day with one goal and end the day with one word:DONE!"

— Anonymous

"I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility."

— John Ruskin

"Luck is PREPARATION meeting OPPORTUNITY, but it all starts with ATTITUDE."

— Jeffrey Keller

"The merits of innovation vs customer feedback"

— Unknown

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

— Charles Dickens

"The powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements."

— Frederick Herzberg

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

— Steve Jobs

"The best learning happens in real life with real problems and real people and not in classrooms."

— Charles Handy

"You never know how good you can be at something until you approach it with passion, dedication and persistence."

— Carol Dweck

"They can because they think they can."

— Virgil

"Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination."

— Fitzhugh Dodson

"Intelligence is admirable, but being unable to handle things going wrong is not. Rather than succumbing to failure, resilient people accept that something didn't work, change their approach to find a different and successful solution instead."

— Unknown

"What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, and Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome."

— Bruno Mars

"Growth mind-set: In this mind-set, the hand you're dealt is just the starting point for development. The growth mind-set is based on the belief that your basic qualities are things you can cultivate through your efforts. Although people may differ in every way in their initial talents and aptitudes, interests, or temperaments, everyone can change and grow through effort and experience."

— Carol Dweck

"We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel."

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

"The great thing about setting goals is that when you reach them, you get to set new ones."

— David Lee

"Do we want to reach the stars or do we want to stay on the ground constantly looking up secretly wishing that we were among the dazzling jewels that grace the heavens. A strong, positive and resilient attitude will help elevate you to unimaginable heights."

— Natasha Dern

"I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life."

— J. K. Rowling

"You become what you think about."

— Napoleon Hill

"Deliberate practice is not fun, it takes effort"

— Unknown

"People with a growth mind-set, see difficulty as a natural part of learning, so they are more likely to take it in stride and find new strategies that work better."

— Carol Dweck

"Focusing solely on what you can potentially do better than any other organization is the only path to greatness."

— Jim Collins

"The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success."

— Denis Waitley

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."

— Samuel Johnson

"That which does not kill me makes me stronger."

— Friedrich Nietzche

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude."

— Unknown

"Failure is success if we learn from it."

— Malcolm Forbes

"You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless."

— Charles de Gaulle

"The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory."

— Ted Engstrom

"Problems then become merely challenging opportunities that we can turn to our advantage. They provide opportunities for personal growth and can stimulate our creativity for finding better ways to live."

— C. Manz

"And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage."

— Paul Lutus

"Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too."

— Zig Ziglar

"We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them."

— Elbert Hubaard

"Our attitude creates our lives"

— Anonymous

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

— Burke

"Talent is a gift, but character is a choice."

— John C Maxwell

"Every healthy child is a potential genius, but whether they become so or not depends on circumstances, on education, and on themselves."

— Polgar

"People with fixed mind-set: they feel threatened by the success of others as a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential all this confirm a deterministic view of the world."

— Carol Dweck

"Patience is not only a virtue, but an acquired trait."

— Christian Calhoun

"Energy, Intelligence and Integrity are the key criteria for success."

— Conor Neill

"Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations."

— Mae Jemison

"If ' you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."

— Catherine Aird

"It is your attitude, more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude."

— Zig Ziglar

"A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement."

— Bo Bennett

"When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens"

— and when it happens, it lasts.

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible."

— Tony Robbins

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

— Napoleon Hill

"In your patience ye are strong."

— Lizabeth Barrett Browning

"When you are not afraid to fail, you're well on the way to success."

— Jeffrey Keller

"A curious state of mind improves learning and memory"

— Neuron (Journal)

"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

— Fredrick Koenig

"You can stumble and fall, make errors and mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming others, including fate, for your results. Always believe there is a positive to be found in the negative. Things usually happen for a reason, even when you are unable to discern the reason. Remember, there is a special providence even in the fall of a sparrow."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader."

— John Quincy Adams

"The qualities of a great man are vision, integrity, courage, understanding, the power of articulation, and profundity of character."

— Dwight D Eisenhower

"Great leaders inspire greatness in others."

— Unknown

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

— David Brinkley

"Alexander the Great received continuous feedback from his mentor Aristotle"

— Unknown

"To the one who offered it, I decline to accept your abuse and request you to keep it for yourself."

— Buddha

"Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude."

— Katherine Mansfield

"Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking."

— J.C. Watts

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

— Anonymous

"Talent alone is not the only trait that makes us successful"

— Unknown

"There is no defence against criticism except obscurity."

— Joseph Addison

"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

— John Madden

"Talent is not merit, but a gift."

— Manfred von Ardenne

"Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success."

— Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder

"It's not about talent once you get to the NFL because everyone's got it. It's about being willing to go that extra mile to be the best and that's something that I've always done."

— Robert Griffin III

"It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

— Mark Twain

"Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it is possessed, and torment themselves with fruitless wishes for that which is beyond their reach."

— Francois de Fenelon

"Character is the foundation stone upon which one must build to win respect. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character."

— R. C. Samsel

"Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes."

— John Dewey

"When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears."

— Tony Robbins

"Effort the one thing within your power"

— Unknown

"The remarkable thing is, we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past. we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react it. And so it'is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes."

— Charles Swindoll

"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."

— Marcus Aurelius

"No matter what your current condition, how or where you grew up, or what education or training you feel you lack, you can be successful in your chosen endeavour. It is spirit, fortitude, and hardiness that matter more than where you start."

— Jack Ma

"The most important key to success is how we handle setbacks and challenges"

— Unknown

"Instead of succumbing to their fear of looking stupid, truly exceptional people just ask the questions on their mind, because they would rather learn something new than appear smart."

— Carol Dweck

"Success is about being your best self, not about being better than others."

— Carol Dweck

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Practice makes you perfect at whatever you practice. So if you practice the wrong thing, if you practice bad habits, you will become perfect at consistently repeating those flawed skills."

— Mathew Syed

"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble."

— Plautus

"Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. . . .There is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men."

— Einstein

"You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for."

— Ted Turner

"Adaptability is being able to adjust to any situation at any given time."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"The power to question is the basis of all human progress."

— Indira Gandhi

"Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstances."

— Bruce Barton

"Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle, who taught Alexander the Great."

— Unknown

"I like criticism. It makes you strong."

— LeBron James

"Hope is not a strategy."

— Vince Lombardi

"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again."

— Og Mandino

"It's not that people with a growth mind-set are able to overcome their fears because they are braver than the rest of us; it's just that they know fear and anxiety are paralyzing emotions and that the best way to overcome this paralysis is to take action. People with a growth mind-set are empowered, and empowered people know that there's no such thing as a truly perfect moment to move forward. So why wait for one? Taking action turns all your worry and concern about failure into positive, focused energy."

— Dr Travis Bradberry, author

"The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned."

— Fred Brooks

"Quit Trying to Determine What's Fair. In fact, complaining about fairness can leave you feeling bitter. And those feelings of bitterness can become a huge stumbling block that will sabotage your efforts to reach your greatest potential."

— Amy Morin, author

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"

— William Shakespeare

"When you're curious you find lots of interesting things to do."

— Walt Disney

"Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone'...'just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

— Marcel Proust

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

— Winston S. Churchill

"Perseverance is the chief to success; but perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it."

— Alexander Graham Bell

"Just as there are no great achievements without setbacks, there are no great relationships without conflicts and problems along the way."

— Carol Dweck

"Envy, if surrounded on all sides by the brightness of another's prosperity, like the scorpion confined within a circle of fire, will sting itself to death."

— Charles Caleb Colton

"Having social skills means more than just being friendly ' it means being emotionally capable in any situation. It ultimately leads to success"

— Unknown

"Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life."

— Napoleon Hill

"Don't be afraid to innovate, but at the same time don't delude yourself into thinking something is working when it is not working or fixated on a bad solution."

— Elon Musk

"Criticism hurts for a reason, and the explanation lies in neuroscience"

— Mel Robbins

"Failure is about not growing, not reaching for the things you value. It means you're not fulfilling your potential."

— Carol Dweck

"A growth mind-set belief that cherished qualities can be developed creates a passion for learning."

— Carol Dweck

"Do you want to be honest or dishonest if you are seeking wealth?"

— Warren buffet

"Effective feedback motivates, helps individual be a better version of self, helps businesses improve on performance, promotes growth and also, open up opportunities for learning and development."

— Temitope Adelekan

"You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing. There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you."

— Brett Hoebel

"Failure I can live with. Not trying is what I can't handle."

— Sanya Richards-Ross

"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."

— Voltaire

"Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today."

— Mark Zuckerberg

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

— Pablo Picasso

"Mind-set is what sets apart successful people from those who are unsuccessful."

— Siebold, author How Rich People Think

"Curiosity is the engine of achievement."

— Ken Robinson

"The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others."

— Don Shula, Head Coach, Baltimore Colts

"Stay hungry. Stay foolish."

— Steve Jobs

"We become what we think about."

— Earl Nightingale

"I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had."

— J. K. Rowling

"Curiosity is a willing, a proud, and eager confession of ignorance."

— S.Leonard Rubinstein

"Humility isn't denying your strengths; it's being honest about your weaknesses."

— Rick Warren

"If you can imagine it. You can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it."

— William Ward

"Human behaviour flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge."

— Plato

"If you want to succeed at any job, make yourself invaluable. Go the extra mile; make them never be able to imagine what life without you there would be like."

— Ross Mathews

"Curiosity is the fuel for discovery, inquiry, and learning."

— Anonymous

"Do you wish to ascend? Start by going down. Do you want to build a tower reaching up to the heavens? Try building down the groundwork for humility."

— Anonymous

"You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for."

— Napoleon Hill

"People with fixed mind-set see effort as fruitless and futile"

— Carol Dweck

"Perseverance and failure cannot coexist. Failure happens when you quit. When all is said and done, perseverance, commonly referred to as stick-to-itiveness, is the ultimate success insurance. Nothing can take its place."

— Charles Schulz

"Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain and difficulty."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."

— Dalai Lama

"There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere."

— Robert Greene

"Research has shown that it takes 31 days of conscious effort to make or break a habit. That means, if one practices something consistently for 31 days, on the 32nd day it does become a habit. Information has been internalised into behavioural change, which is called transformation."

— Shiv Khera

"Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings."

— William Arthur Ward

"Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries."

— William Arthur Ward

"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."

— Og Mandino

"The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company, a church, or a home."

— Unknown

"Responding appropriately when things go wrong-turning a failure into a good failure, one from which we learn is key to success in life."

— T. R. Hoerr

"You need more than traits or talent to succeed"

— Unknown

"We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down. There are countless successful people who would have never made it if they had succumbed to feelings of helplessness."

— Dr Travis Bradberry

"What differentiates the success stories from the failures is that the successful entrepreneurs had the foresight, the ability and the tools to discover which parts of their plans were working brilliantly and which were misguided, and adapt their strategies accordingly."

— Eric Ries, The Lean Start-up

"Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional."

— Roger Crawford

"We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count."

— Neal A. Maxwell

"Set daily, monthly, and long-term goals and dreams. Don't ever be afraid to dream too big. Nothing is impossible. If you believe in yourself, you can achieve it."

— Nastia Liukin

"Be desperate to learn everything about business and hang around those who know better than you."

— Sam Walton 'Walmart

"Everything perfect doesn't exist. Human beings can't accomplish this because it simply was not intended to be completed here. Here is an opportunity to learn."

— Pope Francis

"Success is a sum of small efforts made each day and often takes years to achieve, it is not a sudden mammoth of event."

— Unknown

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

— George Bernard Shaw

"Starting out to make money is the greatest mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing; and if you are good enough at it, the money will come."

— Greer Garson

"The most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticized."

— Ulysses S Grant

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation."

— Brian Tracy

"None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy."

— Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

"It's not what happens to you, but what you do about it that makes the difference."

— W Mitchell

"If you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well."

— Bill Parcells, Head Coach, New York Giants

"If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too."

— Thomas Fuller

"Praising children's intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance. Praise that acknowledges process related activities such as practice, study, persistence and good strategies are proven to instil and develop a growth mind-set."

— Carol Dweck

"Grit gives us resilience. It not only keeps us focused on a task but also enables us to persevere when we fail."

— T. R. Hoerr

"People with a growth mind-set welcome challenges and setbacks. They believe that with effort through increased learning and good strategies such as practice, perseverance, motivation they can succeed."

— Carol Dweck

"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."

— Jonathan Swift

"Ask for feedback from people from diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you're at the top of the chain, sometimes people won't give you honest feedback because they're afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources."

— Steve Jobs

"In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision."

— Dalai Lama

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance."

— Steve Jobs

"Discover what motivates you, what incites you to take action to change your life. Basic motives include love, self-preservation, anger, financial gain and fear. Self-motivation requires enthusiasm, a positive outlook, a belief in yourself and your God-given potential."

— Keith Harrell

"When we speak evil of others, we generally condemn ourselves."

— Publius Syrus

"I must seek in the stars that which was denied to me on earth."

— Einstein - to sons Hans Albert and Eduard, November 24, 1923

"Making life multi-planetary."

— Elon Musk's vision for Spacex

"Instead of hiding from failure, insanely successful people anticipate and integrate failure into their lives in ways that transform it from an end into a means."

— Eric Ries, The Lean Start-up

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

— Thomas Hobbes

"Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honour, I lose myself."

— William Shakespeare

"Persistence is more valuable than planning, IQ, knowledge, genius, and talent."

— Anonymous

"People with a growth mind-set welcome challenge."

— Carol Dweck

"None are as empty as those who are full of themselves."

— Benjamin Whichcote

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

— George Bernard Shaw

"The Attitude of people with fixed mind-set: Success is about establishing their superiority, pure and simple. Being that somebody who is worthier than the nobodies."

— Carol Dweck

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It is quite simple. Double your rate of failure."

— Thomas J Watson

"What is required is ten thousand hours of purposeful practice. And for practice to be truly purposeful, concentration and dedication, although important, are not sufficient. You also need to have access to the right training system, and that sometimes means living in the right town or having the right coach."

— Mathew Syed

"Keep your eyes on your own path. Every minute you spend thinking about other people reaching their dreams is a minute you didn't spend working on achieving your own."

— Amy Morin, author

"Human development is about progressively seeing more"

— Unknown

"A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder."

— Thomas Carlyle

"No matter what happens, you still have a choice about how to respond."

— Condoleezza Rice

"A man's wishes and prayers are only gratified and answered when they harmonize with his thoughts and actions."

— James Allen

"Take heed you harbour not that vice called Envy, lest another's happiness be your torment, and God's blessing become your curse."

— Wellins Calcott

"The strongest of all warriors are these two-Time and Patience."

— Leo Tolstoy

"But 'well' for different people means different things. The person may not be in college, but is doing the best he or she can to fulfil their potential, to help their family."

— Tyrone McGraw

"As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort."

— Paramahansa Yogananda

"Everyone who has achieved exceptional performance has encountered terrible difficulties along the way. There are no exceptions. If you believe that doing the right kind of work can overcome the problems, then you have at least a chance of moving on to ever better performance. But those who see the setbacks as evidence that they lack the necessary gift will give up'quite logically, in light of their beliefs. They will never achieve what they might have."

— Geoff Colvin

"Success is peace of mind attained only through'self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best'of which you're capable. I believe that's true. If you make the effort to do the best of which you're capable, to try and improve the situation that exists for you, I think that's success."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."

— John Kenneth Galbraith

"Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose."

— Zora Neale Hurston

"The discipline of gratitude is the explicit effort to acknowledge that all I am and have is given to me as a gift of love, a gift to be celebrated with joy."

— Henri Nouwen

"Creativity grows out of two things: curiosity and imagination."

— Benny Goodman

"I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows become as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to work. I will work when failures seek rest, I will act now for now is all I have. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person. "

— Og Mandino

"I have the highest goals for myself. That's going out there and being the best player on the floor every time. That's my mentality."

— Zach LaVine

"It's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it that makes the difference."

— W. Mitchell

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers."

— Plato

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

— Vera Wang

"Practice makes any task easier"

— Unknown

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

— Edmund Burke

"Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger."

— Saint Basil

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them."

— Orison Swett Marden

"Many people with IQs of 160 work for people with IQs of 100, if the former have poor intrapersonal intelligence and the latter have a high one."

— Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

"Being humble means that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others."

— Gordon B. Hinckley

"You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change what you are and change where you are by changing what goes into your mind."

— Zig Ziglar

"The Universe will conspire to help you when you commit to following your purpose."

— Joseph Campbell

"Much effort, much prosperity."

— Euripides

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

— Earl Nightingale

"Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible."

— General Erwin Rommel

"Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers."

— H.G. Wells

"Analyses of others are actually expressions of our own needs and values."

— Marshall Rosenberg

"Adversity brings out our hidden potential."

— Jeff Keller

"If you believe that if you do the work, properly designed, with intense focus for hours a day and years on end, your performance will grow dramatically better and eventually reach the highest levels, there's at least a chance you will do the work and achieve great performance."

— Geoff Colvin

"The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort."

— Felix Frankfurter

"The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society."

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

"Your success will shine as a light of hope and inspire numbers you cannot total."

— Mary Anne Radmacher

"Practical thinking skills include applying, using, utilizing and practicing."

— Sternberg.

"Never attack the person. Criticize the action."

— Mel Robbins

"If you haven't failed at least three times today you haven't tried anything new."

— Carole Hyatt

"Everyone who has achieved exceptional performance has encountered terrible difficulties along the way. There are no exceptions."

— Geoff Colvin

"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

— Calvin Coolidge

"Is it ability, or mind-set, determination to work hard? Was it Mozart's musical ability or the fact that he worked till his hands were deformed? Was it Darwin's scientific ability or the fact that he collected specimens nonstop from early childhood?"

— Carol Dweck

"People with growth mind-set find lessons and inspiration in the success of others as a result, they reach ever higher levels of achievement. All this gives them a greater sense of free will."

— Carol Dweck

"Understand that real wealth is portable; it's knowledge."

— Steven Siliger

"Intelligence and personality can be developed rather than being immutably engrained traits."

— Carol Dweck

"Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit."

— Napoleon Hill

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

— William Shakespeare

"Perseverance is about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress."

— Carol Dweck

"The mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right."

— Billie Jean King

"The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate."

— Einstein

"I do not believe in genius, only persistent courageous labour."

— M. Reger

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

— Thomas Jefferson

"Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."

— James Russell Lowell

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

— Alexander Pope

"It takes about ten years to make a mature dancer. Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful, but the path to the paradise of that achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration"

— Martha Graham

"What did I (or can I) learn from that experience? How can I use it as a basis for growth?"

— Carol Dweck, 2006

"If you can find ways without any obstacles, it probably leads nowhere."

— Che Guevara

"You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By applying yourself to the task of becoming a little better each and every day over a period of time, you will become a lot better."

— Carol Dweck,

"The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does."

— Herbert B Prochow

"No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves."

— Dwight D Eisenhower

"We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort."

— William James

"Smart decision-making requires more than the intellect as measured by traditional IQ."

— Daniel Goleman

"Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory."

— Richard Whately

"The most important thing in the life of every man and every woman is not that they should never fall along the way. The important thing is always to get back up, not to stay on the ground licking your wounds."

— Pope Francis, The name of God is Mercy

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

— Zig Zigglar

"Hardship is a blessing when it spurs effort and development; ease is a curse when it increases complacency and self-indulgence."

— Muso Kokushi

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand."

— Vince Lombardi

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."

— Publilius Syrus

"Attitude is everything."

— Anonymous

"Somewhere a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success."

— Dowden

"There's a lot of intelligence out there being wasted by underestimating students' potential to develop."

— Carol Dweck

"True innovation is created by singularly gifted visionaries who ignore customer input and instead manufacture innovation based solely on their prophetic vision for a better future."

— Unknown

"To be strategic is to concentrate on what is important, on those few objectives that can give us a comparative advantage, on what is important to us rather than others, and to plan and execute the resulting plan with determination and steadfastness."

— Richard Koch

"To be smart is to learn and to increase one's intellectual skills."

— Carol Dweck

"Genius is eternal patience."

— Michelangelo

"The world is filled with an abundance of opportunity which the dreamers of the past never knew."

— Napoleon Hill.

"They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistance"

— John Di Lemme

"We don't have to be smarter than the rest; we have to be more disciplined that the rest."

— Warren Buffett

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Our capacity for success and greatness is embodied by the people we surround ourselves with, if we can't hang out with Franklin and Einstein and Tesla, why not surround ourselves with their stories?"

— Lewis Howes

"Goal setting is what separates successful people from unsuccessful people."

— Claudiu Molovan

"Don't complain when things don't go your way. Complaining is an obvious sign of a fixed mindset."

— Carol Dweck

"Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation."

— John Ortberg

"People with growth mind-set learn from criticism, people with a fixed mind-set ignore useful negative feedback"

— Carol Dweck

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

— Conrad Hilton

"The sign of an intelligent person is his ability to control emotions by the application of reason."

— Marya Mannes

"Albert Camus, Nobel prize winner: Inspired by his teacher"

— Unknown

"Pride is about my glory; humility is about God's glory."

— Ephesians

"If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?"

— G. K Chesterton

"Feel the fear and do it anyway."

— Susan Jeffers

"The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are."

— J.P. Morgan

"A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism."

— Will Self

"We can't solve our problems from the same level of thinking that created them. Human development is about progressively seeing more."

— Unknown

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."

— Fran'ois de la Rochefoucauld

"Criticism is information that will help you grow."

— Hendrie Weisinger

"Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality."

— Roy Bennett

"The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."

— Oscar Wilde

"Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people who follow-through who excel."

— Mary Kay Ash

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which everyone has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

— Charles Dickens

"When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself."

— Isak Dinesen

"Joy is the simplest form of gratitude."

— Karl Barth

"The growth mind-set says all of these things can be developed. All - you, your partner, and the relationship - are capable of growth and change. In the fixed mind-set, the ideal is instant, perfect, and perpetual compatibility. Like it was meant to be. Like riding off into the sunset. Like they lived happily ever after."

— Carol Dweck

"Everyone has a role model, someone who pointed the way at a critical moment in their lives."

— Carol Dweck

"Super-successful people know more than others do because they're constantly working to increase their self-awareness."

— Travis Bradberry

"Ingratitude is monstrous."

— William Shakespeare

"What keeps me going is goals."

— Muhammad Ali

"Glory is sometimes born of catastrophe."

— National Review

"Practice enables people to perceive more, to know more, and to remember more than most people."

— Mathew Syed

"The value of failure is in the learning and growth that it provides. Without learning and growth, failure can be a destructive force in our lives."

— C. Manz

"The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."

— Dalai Lama

"If we fail to define success for ourselves and try to pursue someone's path, we will end up frustrated, unhappy, unhappy and ultimately feeling deeply unsuccessful."

— www.success.com

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

"In our study, we taught them that every time the children push out of their comfort zone to learn something new and difficult, the neurons in their brain can form new, stronger connections, and over time they can get smarter."

— Carol Dweck

"My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend."

— Tiger Woods

"Who do you spend time with? Criticizers or encouragers? Surround yourself with those who believe in you. Your life is too important for anything less."

— Steve Goodier

"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."

— Og Mandino

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

— Jeff Bezos

"To persist steadfastly in pursuit of an undertaking, task, journey, or goal, even if hindered by distraction, difficulty, obstacles, or discouragement."

— Michael Pollock

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

— James Allen

"The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe."

— Queen Elizabeth II

"The happy people are those who are producing something."

— William Ralph Inge

"It is only through labour and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have."

— Ken Keyes, Jr

"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

— Jim Rohn

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

— Robert Kennedy

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"I am more and more convinced that whenever one has to vent an opinion on the actions or on the writings of others, unless this be done from a certain one-sided enthusiasm, or from a loving interest in the person and the work, the result is hardly worth gathering up. Sympathy and enjoyment in what we see is in fact the only reality, and, from such reality, reality as a natural product follows. All else is vanity."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you."

— Les Brown

"Whether you are in God's hand being used publicly or on the table in the darkness of obscurity it makes no difference to your value."

— Ray Bevan, Pastor

"Thoughts are the first step for all things to be. If you believe it hard enough and work hard enough, it will become reality. Our greatest gift is the power of thought. Thoughts are pure energy that can take you to the highest of highs, or the lowest of lows."

— Steve Rizzo

"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."

— Orison Swett Marden

"Integrity is about being honest and having strong moral principles. It may also be described as the ability to act in ways that are consistent with the values, beliefs, and moral principles we hold. Integrity is about making good choices. It is doing the right things for the right reason."

— Unknown

"Talent isn't enough. You need motivation and persistence, too; a blend of faith and arrogance."

— Steinbeck

"Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified, it is not criticism, learn from it."

— Anonymous

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of haven."

— John Milton

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

— Jim Rohn

"You must not under any pretence allow your mind to dwell on any thought that is not positive, constructive, optimistic, kind."

— Emmet Fox

"Anyone can attain my level, if he is as diligent as I have been for my entire life."

— J.S. Bach

"It is always the secure who are humble."

— G.K. Chesterton

"Set a goal. Write it down. Set a deadline. Make a plan. And work on becoming better in that area every single day."

— Brian Tracy

"Failure is usually the line of least persistence."

— Wilfred Beaver

"Charles Dickens was lame. So was Handel. Homer was blind, Plato was a hunchback. Sir Walter Scott was paralyse. What gave each of these people the stamina to overcome their circumstances? Purpose! Each of them had a dream, fueled by a fire within that could not be extinguished."

— Bob Gass, author

"Skepticism is the first step towards truth."

— Denis Diderot

"To be a leader or to succeed in your business or field, you need to be able to see those circular trends long before they become conventional wisdom."

— Sataya Nadella (CEO Microsoft).

"If you're curious about how and why things work, and are keen to uncover explanations, then you're more likely to succeed than your colleagues."

— Unknown

"I believe ability can get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves.. how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers."

— Leigh Hunt

"A growth mind-set allows each individual to embrace learning, to welcome challenges, mistakes, and feedback, and to understand the role of effort in creating talent."

— Carol Dweck

"Feedback when given well should not alienate the receiver of the feedback, but should motivate them to perform better."

— Anonymous

"For people with a growth mind-set, setbacks are motivating, informative input - a wakeup call."

— Carol Dweck

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."

— Erich Fromm

"Very often we need to endure the darkness of the soil like a seed. The seed has to go through the process to release its potential, before it produces fruit. That little seed is buried in the darkness of the soil. I have learned that it is not in the spotlight that God develops you. It is in the darkness of obscurity, that is where the outer shell is broken down and the beauty of God break forth."

— Ray Bevan, Pastor

"Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man, grasping all, loses everything."

— James Allen

"People who shine from within don't need the spotlight."

— Pandurangan

"Why you need perseverance?"

— Unknown

"It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained."

— Queen Elizabeth II

"Make each day count by setting specific goals to succeed, then putting forth every effort to exceed your own expectations."

— Les Brown

"No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life."

— Nietzsche.

"What doesn't kill me makes you stronger."

— Fredrich Nietzsche

"Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy."

— Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

"Arrogance closes more doors than it opens. Stay humble."

— Toni Payne

"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."

— John Burroughs

"Talent isn't enough. You need motivation and persistence."

— Steinbeck

"We all have a choice. We can choose an inner dialogue of self-encouragement and self-motivation, or we can choose one of self-defeat and self-pity. It's a power we all have. Each of us encounters hard times, hurt feelings, heartache, and physical and emotional pain. The key is to realize it's not what happens to you that matters; it's how you choose to respond."

— Keith Harrell

"Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill."

— Buddha

"Never let a bad situation bring the worst in you. Be strong and choose to be positive."

— Unknown

"China and Ping-Pong, Brazil and soccer; all the successful systems have one thing in common: they institutionalize the principles of purposeful practice."

— Mathew Syed, Bunce

"Failure is information; we label it failure, but it's more like, this didn't work, and I'm a problem solver, so I'll try something else."

— Carol Dweck

"Entrepreneurs average three to eight failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas, but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat."

— Lisa Amos

"I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a high competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure and their ability to overcome it."

— Bill Walsh, Head Coach

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness."

— Naomi Wolf

"The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind."

— Henry David Thoreau.

"Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go."

— Bernard Malamud

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

— Kakuzo Okakura.

"Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering."

— Theodore Roosevelt

"There are only two stimulants to one's best efforts: the fear of punishment and the hope of reward."

— John Wilson

"When you stay on purpose and refuse to be discouraged by fear, you align with the infinite self, in which all possibilities exist."

— Wayne Dyer

"Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mind-set welcome setbacks with open arms."

— Carol Dweck

"A positive attitude is not about displaying a phony smile, a happy face and a perky disposition. It is simply a way of responding to life in a manner that allows us to accept the duality, the contradictions, the contrasts of our experiences."

— Natasha Dern

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life."

— Steve Jobs

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."

— Leon C. Megginson

"Setbacks and feedback aren't about your abilities, they are information you could use to help yourself learn."

— Carol Dweck

"Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action."

— Peter Drucker

"Failure is an event not a person."

— William D Brown

"Real Success comes from the difference we make"

— Unknown

"One real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, loses and disappointments."

— Joseph Addison

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy looking for it."

— Henry Thoreau

"Examples moves the world more than doctrines."

— Henry Miller

"It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity."

— Francis Bacon

"Always remember to smile and look up at what you got in life."

— Marilyn Monroe

"It is granted only to the heart that abounds with integrity, trust, generosity and love to realize true prosperity. The heart that is not possessed of these qualities cannot know prosperity, for prosperity, like happiness, is not an outward possession, but an inward realization."

— James Allen

"Never consider yourself a victim. When you think you are a victim, you have given control of your life to somebody else. You may not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances."

— Codolezza Rice

"Without a purpose and a plan, people drift aimlessly through life."

— Napoleon Hill

"For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!"

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile."

— Napoleon Hill

"Threatened by the success of others"

— Unknown

"He who throws dirt always loses ground."

— Unknown

"Don't let compliments get to your head and don't let criticism get to your heart."

— Lysa TerKeurst

"The future belongs to the curious."

— Anonymous

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

— William James

"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is, what are we busy about?"

— Henry David Thoreau

"Patience is the art of hoping."

— Marquis De Vauvenargues

"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream and a vision."

— Muhammad Ali

"Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also matters immensely for our personal destiny."

— Daniel Goleman

"Our destiny changes with our thoughts, we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires."

— Orison Sweet Marden

"Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time."

— Debbie Millman

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

— Martin Luther King Jnr.

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

— Swami Vivekananda

"Integrity is not about doing what's easy or what's popular, it's doing what's right."

— Bob Gass, author, UCB

"Continuous improvement is the best hedge against future risk. The external environments of businesses change constantly, so leaders must continually improve to remain successful and competitive. Without that improvement, businesses quickly lose their competitive advantage and market share."

— Christopher Jurin

"The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love."

— Pope Francis

"My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in."

— Simon Cowell

"Successful people are looking for opportunities to improve and new things to learn about themselves and the world around them."

— Mary Cay Ricci

"Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible."

— Michael Phelps

"It's not enough to dream the dream. Change comes from action. We need to take action to make the vision real."

— Anonymous

"Patience is enduring love; experience is perfecting love; and hope is exulting love."

— Alexander Dickens

"Anyone who thinks they've outgrown the benefits of a teacher's help should at least question that view."

— Geoff Colvin

"In High School he graduated 376th out of a class of 391 and struggled with reading in his early adult life. Yet his mind glowed with a fierce natural intelligence."

— The Telegraph - The Greatest Muhammad Ali 1942 -2016

"A winning effort begins with preparation."

— Joe Gibbs

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true."

— Richard Bach

"You need more than perseverance"

— Unknown

"What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better."

— Wendell Philips

"Constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought."

— Margaret Chase Smith

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."

— JIM ROHN, Business philosopher

"He only profits from praise who values criticism."

— Heinrich Heine

"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime; and departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time."

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"A Clear Vision, Backed By Definite Plans, Gives You A Tremendous Feeling Of Confidence And Personal Power."

— Brian Tracy

"A set of strengths that were especially likely to predict life satisfaction and high achievement: grit, self-control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism, and curiosity."

— P. Tough

"Work hard in silence, let success make the noise."

— Frank Ocean

"Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones."

— Blaise Pascal

"A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success."

— Elbert Hubbard

"Your life is a message to the world make sure it's inspiring."

— Maeve Garriosn

"Press on: nothing in the world can take the place of perseverance. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an 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."

— Calvin Coolidge

"Success is a matter of constant growth."

— Deepak Chopra, Spiritual teacher

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be. Your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

— James Allen

"Don't just make money, make an impact."

— Bob Gass, author, UCB

"Rather fail with honour than succeed by fraud."

— Sophocles

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

— Charles Darwin

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body"

— Sir Richard Steele

"Our thoughts determine our lives."

— Unknown

"For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store."

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

"Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success."

— Pablo Picasso

"The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated."

— William James

"Feedback is one of the most powerful influences on learning and achievement, but this impact can be either positive or negative."

— Hattie & Timperley

"Attitude is everything: change your attitude and you change your life."

— Jeffrey Keller

"Failure is information."

— Carol Dweck

"Elvis Prestly You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."

— Manager, Eddie Bond

"To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favourable wind."

— Seneca the Younger

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

— Ernest Hemingway

"Artistic talent is a gift from God and whoever discovers it in himself has a certain obligation: to know that he cannot waste this talent, but must develop it."

— John Paul II

"Personal success is when you work your hardest to become your best."

— Carol Dweck

"Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space, feels itself excluded."

— William Hazlitt

"The more you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow."

— Carol Dweck

"A dream is the creative vision for your life in the future."

— Denis Waitley

"We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do, I think inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled."

— Lee Pearson

"There Are No Limits To What You Can Accomplish, Except The Limits You Place On Your Own Thinking."

— Brian Tracy

"No matter what happens, refuse to take it tragically'. to refuse to be tragic is to affirm victory. Know that you can be victorious and insist upon victory. Realize: God in me is stronger than anything l have to meet."

— Emmet Fox

"If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal."

— Zig Ziglar

"To make no mistake is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

— Plutarch

"Goal setting is powerful because it provides focus. It shapes our dreams. It gives us the ability to hone in on the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we desire in life. Goals are great because they cause us to stretch and grow in ways that we never have before. In order to reach our goals, we must become better."

— Jim Rohn

"To love what you do and feel that it matters, how could anything be more fun?"

— Catherine Graham

"If you want to find happiness, find gratitude."

— Steve Maraboli

"Think, act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results."

— Michael LeBoeuf

"Fear, desire, hope will push us on toward the future."

— Michel de Montaigne

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do."

— Norman Vincent Peale

"Go to bed smarter than when you woke up."

— Charlie Munger

"What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."

— J. Sidlow Baxter

"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him."

— Malcolm Forbes

"Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"There are no secrets to success it is the results of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

— Colin Powell

"The most important investment you can make is in yourself."

— Anonymous

"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on! hold fast! hold out! Patience is genius."

— Count De Buffon

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

— George Bernard Shaw

"If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."

— Mother Teresa

"The fault you see in your brothers is really in you, the world is a mirror."

— Unknown

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

— George Elliot

"I think with practice, you can be whatever you want to be, and with a goal you can go in any direction that you want to go in."

— Michael Phelps

"Excellence is going the extra mile."

— Joyce Meyer

"Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect."

— Vince Lombardi

"Troubles, like babies, grow larger by nursing."

— Lady Holland

"The new survival skills: effective communication, curiosity, and critical-thinking skills are no longer skills that only the elites in a society must muster; they are essential survival skills for all of us."

— Yong Zhao

"Everyone enjoys being acknowledged and appreciated. Sometimes even the simplest act of gratitude can change someone's entire day. Take the time to recognize and value the people around you and appreciate those who make a difference in your lives."

— Roy T. Bennett

"It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyse it, and appropriately act on it."

— Stephen Covey,

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

— Earl Nightingale

"A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true."

— Greg S. Reid

"You're in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way."

— Carol Dweck

"Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill."

— W C Fields

"Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance."

— Eckhart Tolle

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence."

— Robert Frost

"Those with integrity are guided by a set of principles that empowers them to behave consistently to a high standard. The principles of integrity are virtues, such as dependability, honesty, loyalty compassion, objectivity, respect and trust."

— Mark O'Hara

"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own."

— H G Bohn

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

— Saddi

"All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education."

— Sir Walter Scott

"Peace of mind attained only through self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do the best of which you're capable."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry."

— Frank Lloyd Wright

"Criticism may make a person defensive and shut down how he or she approaches learning. Process praise predicted the child's mind-set and desire for challenge."

— Carol Dweck

"Be curious, not judgmental."

— Walt Whitman

"Albert Einstein (age 10) - 'You will never amount to much'"

— Schoolmaster.

"Nothing is more honourable than a grateful heart."

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

— Margaret Thatcher

"Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy scans for evidence to prove the point that others will be preferred and rewarded more than you. There is only one alternative, self-value. If you cannot love yourself, you will not believe that you are loved. You will always think it's a mistake or luck."

— Jennifer James

"A successful person never loses, they either win or learn!"

— John Calipari

"We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same."

— Martha Graham

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

— Lao Tzu

"It's the quality of the feedback rather than its existence or absence that determines its power."

— Stiggins

"Success is measured in many ways. The most important of which is how you feel about yourself"

— Lina King

"IQ was the predictor of success in the 20th century, in the 21st century, self-regulation will be the predictor of success."

— Dr. L. Bisnaire, Dr. J. Clinton and Dr. B. Ferguson

"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."

— Henry David Thoreau

"The moment you feel you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse."

— Joanne Crisner Alcayaga, writer

"Your Attitude is Your Window to the World, keep your attitude window clean and bright!"

— Jeffrey Keller

"Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness."

— Bryant H. McGill

"Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains."

— William Penn

"You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."

— Bum Phillips, Head Coach

"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

— Charles Dickens

"What you do is what matters, not what you think or say or plan"

— Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson

"Motivation drives metacognitive skills which in turn activate learning and thinking skills, which then provide feedback to the metacognitive skills, enabling one's level of expertise to increase."

— Sternberg

"Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you."

— Mary Lou Retton

"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort."

— Colin Powell

"Inspired by his history teacher"

— Unknown

"Love and gratitude can part seas, move mountains, and create miracles."

— Rhonda Byrne

"A critic is a legless man who teaches running."

— Channing Pollock

"The Coca Cola Company. Sold only 400 bottles its first year in business."

— Unknown

"There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience."

— La Bruyere, Les Caracteres

"Complaining is an obvious sign of a fixed mind-set. A growth mind-set looks for opportunity in everything, so there's no room for complaints."

— Dr Travis Bradberry

"Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place."

— Carol Dweck, H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a great opportunity to take a new and more promising approach to any problem, to come back stronger than ever."

— John Roos

"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast. Norman Vincent Peale"

— Unknown

"In a study of skills that distinguish star performers in every field from entry-level jobs to executive positions, the single most important factor was not IQ, advanced degrees, or technical experience, it was EQ.' Of the competencies required for excellent in performance in the job studies, 67% were emotional competencies."

— Daniel Goleman

"Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors."

— Dalai Lama

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything."

— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Life consist not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well."

— Josh Billings

"The coin of competition is knowledge"

— Richard R Elsworth, Leading with Purpose

"He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future."

— Quevedo

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

— Henry Van Dyke

"I didn't start off being able to sing or play the guitar, I had to learn to do both of them."

— Ed Sheran

"A 'fixed mind-set' assumes that our character, intelligence, and creative ability are static givens which we can't change in any meaningful way, and success is the affirmation of that inherent intelligence. A 'growth mind-set', on the other hand, thrives on challenge and sees failure not as evidence of unintelligence but as a heartening springboard for growth and for stretching our existing abilities."

— Carol Dweck

"Instead of counting your days, make your days count."

— Unknown

"Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it."

— Mark Zuckerberg

"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

— Joshua J. Marine

"Analysing past mistakes and setbacks may improve your future performance."

— Meg Selig

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

— Louis Pasteur

"There are no traffic jams on the extra mile."

— Zig Ziglar

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

— Malcolm Forbes

"Be bold, mighty forces will come to your aid."

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Sometimes things aren't clear right away. That's where you need to be patient and persevere and see where things lead."

— Mary Pierce

"Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good."

— Bertolt Brecht

"Joy is a heart full and a mind purified by gratitude."

— Marietta McCarty

"People who have a growth mind-set seek challenges and learning opportunities."

— Carol Dweck

"Curiosity lights our lives, inspires us to seek out answers."

— Unknown

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success."

— Malcolm X

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of other?"

— Voltaire

"A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there."

— Dawn Staley,

"From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

— Plutarch

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter."

— Walt Disney

"The key to learning is feedback. It is impossible to learn anything without feedback."

— Steve Levitt

"Ingratitude is the daughter of pride."

— Miguel de Cervantes

"Success is doing the best you can with what you have whatever you are in life."

— Bob Gass, author Word for Today

"Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them."

— Leo Tolstoy

"No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks."

— James Allen

"The best news is that emotional literacy is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility."

— Daniel Goleman

"Learning is a gift. Even when pain is your teacher."

— Maya Watson

"Action will destroy your procrastination"

— Og Mandino

"I believe the most important decision we make on a day-to-day basis is our choice of an attitude! It either keeps us moving ahead or cripples our progress it fuels our fire or assaults our hope. When or attitude is right, there's no barrier too high no valley too deep, no dream too extreme and no challenge too great."

— Bob & Debby Gass, UCB

"Giving is an expression of gratitude for our blessings."

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

"The right role model can be very inspirational."

— John Cook

"Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile."

— Gary Ryan Blair

"Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People. Everyone has unique strengths, talents and life experiences. There will always be someone better, richer, and more accomplished but you don't need to waste your energy resenting them. The only person you should compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday."

— Amy Morin, Author

"Make every day your masterpiece."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Dissatisfaction and discouragement are not caused by the absence of things but the absence of vision."

— Anonymous

"You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person."

— Hillary Clinton

"They can because they think they can"

— Virgil

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

— Willie Nelson

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else: you are the one who gets burned."

— Buddha

"Practice constantly and soon those actions and reactions will become easy to perform, for any act with practice becomes easy."

— OG MANDINO

"It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."

— George Eliot

"The road to happiness lies in two simple principles. Find what it is that interest you and that you can do well, and when you find it, put your whole soul into it, every bit of energy and ambition and national ability you have."

— John D Rochfeller III

"Act as if it were impossible to fail."

— Dorothea Brande

"If you truly want to change the world, you need more than talent. You also need to do the work, because hard work beats talent if talent doesn't work hard."

— Mary Barra

"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude."

— Pat Riley

"You can change your mind-set. Neuroplasticity is the ability of the brain to change, adapt and rewire itself throughout our entire life."

— The Author

"When my attitudes are right there's no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me."

— Chuck Swindoll

"Doing hard work and putting in effort paves the path to achievement and success"

— Carol Dweck

"Most people giving you feedback are going to come from both a place of genuinely trying to help as well as competing with you, and it's up to you to understand their perspective."

— Anonymous

"It's lonely at the top. 99% of the world is convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre middle-ground."

— Tim Ferris, Entrepreneur

"Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before."

— Kushandwizdan

"Reputation is the key to success. You have to be loyal to your customers."

— Li Ka Shing

"Your attitude affect your reality."

— Honoree Corder

"Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

— Conrad Hilton

"If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new"

— Jeff Bezos

"I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation."

— Will Smith

"Never try to be better than someone else, always learn from others. Never cease trying to be the best you can be - that's under your control."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Success is never final, Failure is never fatal"

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"If a man offered a gift to another but the gift was declined, to whom would the gift belong?"

— Unknown

"He who labours diligently need never despair, for all things are accomplished by diligence and labour."

— Menander

"How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success."

— Elbert Hubbard

"Knowing how and when to express emotions"

— Unknown

"You should never cease from exploration."

— Nadella CEO Microsoft

"Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity."

— Reed Markham

"Success is impact"

— Sallie Krawcheck

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive."

— Matt Cameron

"You are always in charge of the direction of your life, avoid the 'victim' orientation."

— Jeffrey Keller

"Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty"

— Plato

"Meekness implies a spirit of gratitude as opposed to an attitude of self-sufficiency, an acknowledgement of a greater power beyond oneself, a recognition of God, and an acceptance of his commandments."

— Gordon B. Hinckley

"People with growth mind-set see effort as the path to mastery."

— Carol Dweck

"Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes."

— Elvis Presley

"Turn your stumbling block into stepping stones."

— Anonymous

"You have control over the pictures that occupy your mind."

— Jeff Keller

"I will form good habit for it is another of nature's laws that only a habit can subdue another habit."

— Og Mandino

"Success is the uncommon application of common knowledge. In other words, when it comes to success, what matters isn't so much about learning something new, but putting into practice what we already know."

— Laodicah Nyaribari

"Each bruise is a lesson. Each lesson makes us better."

— Syrio Forel, A Game of Thrones character

"You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you're not passionate enough from the start, you'll never stick it out."

— Steve Jobs

"With love and patience, nothing is impossible."

— Daisaku Ikeda

"Passion is your first step to achievement. Your desire, not your IQ or your DNA, determines your destiny. The greater your desire, the greater your potential"

— Bob Gass, author, the Word for Today

"Patience through practice is the key to developing your gift, master your gift."

— Justicia Minkah

"Professional golfer Moe Norman, who played from the 1950s to the 1970s, hit eight hundred golf balls a day, five days a week from age sixteen to thirty-two when he retired."

— Geoff Colvin

"Failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from."

— Carol Dweck

"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

— Napoleon Hill

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

— Michael Jordan

"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts."

— Henri Frederic Amiel

"Failure is the foundation of success, and the means by which it is achieved."

— Lao Tzu

"Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior."

— Carol Dweck

"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."

— C. S. Lewis

"The only real failures occur when we back away from worthwhile challenges without even trying or when we refuse to learn from our setbacks."

— Charles Manz

"No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction."

— Charles K Adams

"The time is always right to do what is right."

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Self-motivation requires enthusiasm, a positive outlook, a belief in yourself and your God-given potential."

— Keith Harrell

"The only truly educated person is the one who has learned how to learn."

— Unknown

"People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy."

— Oliver Goldsmith

"The only way to learn about life is through exploring"

— T. S. Elliot

"Your thoughts shape your vision."

— Anonymous

"Any person capable of angering you becomes your master."

— Epictetus

"One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented."

— Brian Tracy

"We are limited not by our abilities but by our vision."

— Anonymous

"Without question, one of the most important elements in determining one's success is his or her attitude."

— Honoree Corder

"Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent."

— Talmud

"Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self-worth. Each of us has something to give that no one else has."

— Unknown

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

— Robert Collier

"When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it."

— Horace Rutledge

"Grit is more important to your success than your intellect or IQ."

— Angela Duckworth

"If you really want to be world class - to be the best you can be - it comes down to preparation and practice."

— Robin S. Sharma

"It is a rough road that leads to the height of greatness."

— Seneca

"You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one."

— John Wooden, Coach, 10x National Champion

"Knowing the answers will help you in school. Knowing how to question will help you in life."

— Warren Berger

"The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest."

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment."

— Elbert Hubbard

"What you want - really deeply want is fundamental, because deliberate practice is a heavy investment."

— Geoff Colvin

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

— John Quincy Adams

"Most people thought Michael Phelps reached his full potential when he won the 2008 Olympic medal, but he broke that record and went on to win eight more medals at the 2012 Olympics with practice and persistence."

— Unknown

"While wisdom requires education, education does not necessarily make people wise."

— Professor Charles Gragg

"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."

— Thomas Aquinas

"Everything is practice."

— Pele

"Deliberate practice includes having others tell us exactly what's not right after each unsuccessful attempt so we can keep working at it until we get better."

— Geoff Colvin

"The greedy man may become a millionaire, but he will always be wretched, and mean, and poor, and will even consider himself outwardly poor so long as there is a man in the world who is richer than himself, whilst the upright, the open-handed and loving will realize a full and rich prosperity, even though their outward possessions may be small."

— James Allen

"It would be wonderful if I can inspire others, who are struggling to realize their dreams, to say 'if this country kid could do it, let me keep slogging away'."

— Douglas Engelbart

"I mean really big. Dream up big, hairy, audacious goals that you are passionate about and pursue them relentlessly.' You have to begin with the end goal in mind, knowing that a goal is a dream with a deadline. You must believe and understand that if you do not impose the deadline for your dreams on yourself, your dreams will be dead, because they will never be accomplished."

— Clay Clark

"The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter."

— Anonymous

"If a man wakes up famous, he hasn't been sleeping."

— Wes Izzard

"Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals'this will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step."

— Jack Canfield

"Criticism based on anger and contempt'will only lead to destruction of the relationship."