Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will 

— Jawaharal Nehru

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit 

— Aristotle

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out 

— Robert Collier

There’s always a way - if you’re committed  

— Tony Robbins

When you visualise, then you materialise? If you’ve been there in the mind you’ll go there in the body  

— Dr Denis Waitley

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues‚ but the parent of all the others 

—  Cicero

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away? 

— Lord Chesterfield

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths‚ rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success  

— John D. Rockefeller

There are two very difficult things in the world. One is to make a name for oneself and the other is to keep it 

— Walter Schumann

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life 

— Marci Shimoff

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as strong to think 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose 

— Michel de Montaigne

Whatever we think about and thank about we bring about  

— John Demartini

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do 

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start  

— Nido Qubein

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

— Tony Robbins

It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed 

— Theodore Roosevelt

The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed 

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye 

— Mary Shelley

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are: Hard work‚ Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense  

— Thomas A. Edison