"What we see depends mainly on what we look for." - John Lubbock

"Commitment with accountability closes the gap between intention and results." - Sandra Gallagher

"Lincoln was not great because he lived in a log cabin but because he was able to get out of the cabin.
An ounce of determination is worth a ton of procrastination.
Curious people ask questions - determined people find the answer.
Often it takes as much courage to resist as it does to go ahead.
It takes determination to get to the top, but more to remain there." - Croft M. Pentz

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." - Paul McCartney

"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - Kenny Rogers

"What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations - is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts." - Hannah Arendt

"We often think of enthusiasm as caused by an external event. However, it can be generated from within, becoming an intentional action for transforming virtually anything in our lives. Enthusiasm can take the seemingly small, dull, boring, or unimportant and turn it into something new and magnificent. Learn to strengthen the muscle of your enthusiasm, letting the tiny become great, and you will reclaim your energy and passion." - Anat Baniel

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her." - David Brinkley

"Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action." - David J. Schwartz

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust

"If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development." - Brian Tracy

"The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe." - Deepak Chopra

"The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money." - unknown

"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." - Benjamin Franklin

"The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." - Stephen R. Covey

"You can motivate by fear. And you can motivate by reward. But both of these methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation." - Homer Rice

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

"You must have long term goals to keep you from being frustrated by short term failures." - Charles C. Noble

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other." - Douglas Everett

"The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be." - Marcel Pagnol

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." - Author unknown

"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do." - Andrew Carnegi

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves." - Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly." - Marcus Aurelius

"Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another." - Madonna

"There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself." - Stuart Wilde

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find." - Wayne Dyer

"Do you realize that your life at this very moment is the result of everything that you have ever thought, done, believed or felt up until now? You can start right now to consciously and deliberately attract whatever you desire in this lifetime." - Jack Canfield

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'good morning' at total strangers." - Maya Angelou

"A free lunch is only found in mousetraps." - John Capuzzi

"You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day." - Cotton Fitzsimmons

"Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment." - Thomas Carlyle

"I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying." - Michael Jordan

"The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%." - Andrew Carnegie

"Learn to laugh at your troubles and you'll never run out of things to laugh at." - Lyn Karol

"The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek, therefore not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be." - Neale Donald Walsch

"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert G. Ingersoll

"All great achievements require time." - David J. Schwartz

"If you want more, you have to require more from yourself." - Dr Phil

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action." - Al Batt