"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." -William James

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval." -Mark Twain

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

"That something happened to you is of no importance to anyone, not even to you. The important thing about you is what you choose to make happen - your values and choices." -Ayn Rand

"That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not." -James Kern Feibleman

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this 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

"A myth is a fixed way of looking at the world which cannot be destroyed because, looked at through the myth, all evidence supports the myth." -Edward De Bono

"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." –Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it." –M. Scott Peck

"There are no hopeless situations in life; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them." –Clare Booth Luce

"You can change behavior in an entire organization, provided you treat training as a process rather than an event." –Edward Jones

"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."  -Ayn Rand
           
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than 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

"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing." -Helen Adams Keller

"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." –Mark Twain

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"...if you are listening to find out, then your mind is free, not committed to anything; it is very acute, sharp, alive, inquiring, curious, and therefore capable of discovery." -Krishnamurti

"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting." -Katherine Hepburn

"The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Any one of them could change the course of his life overnight." -Mark Caine

"You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be. If you really wanted to be any different, you would be in the process of changing right now." -Fred Smith