"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up." - Thomas Alva Edison

"If you make the unconditional commitment to reach your most important goals, if the strength of your decision is sufficient, you will find the way and the power to achieve your goals." - Robert Conklin

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver

"Select a few people to be particularly kind to today - those you were a little harsh with yesterday." - Norman Vincent Peale

"Make a decision to be succesful right now. Most people never decide to be wealthy and that is why they retire poor." - Brian Tracy

"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm." - Earl Nightingale

"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough." - Christian Nestell Bovée

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to." - Kahlil Gibran

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." - Thomas Dewar

"People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." - Michael Josephson

"Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you." - Brian Tracy

"The most practical, beautiful, workable philosophy in the world won't work - if you won't." - Zig Ziglar

"The most effective way to manage change is to create it." - Peter Drucker

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow." - Albert Einstein

"Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually." - Stephen R. Covey

"The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers. " - Brian Tracy

"Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much." - Erich Fromm

"In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... Self-discipline with all of them came first." - Harry Truman