“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas A. Edison

“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -– Albert Ellis

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you. –Zig Ziglar

I’m a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it’s about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us. –Jack Canfield

“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life’s most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? –Martin Luther King, Jr.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
–Ralph Waldo Emmerson

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. –Albert Einstein

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
–Henry David Thoreau

“Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it. No involvement, no commitment.  –Stephen Covey