Let us strive to improve ourselves, for we cannot remain stationary; one either progresses or retrogrades 

— Mme. Du Deffand

Employ you time in improving yourself by other mans writings so that you shall come easy what others have laboured hard for 

— Socrates

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement 

— Brian Tracy

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom 

— Bertrand Russell

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution 

— Robert F. Kennedy

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

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full 

—  Henry Kissinger

The only person who can tell you ‘you can’t’ is you. And you don’t have to listen 

— Nike

This above all: to thine own self be true  

— William Shakespeare

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

— Dr Denis Waitley

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling 

— Lucretius

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant 

— Bayard Taylor

You see things; and you say‚ "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say‚ "Why not?" 

—  George Bernard Shaw

In the end‚ it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years 

— Abraham Lincoln

Difficulties are just things to overcome‚ after all  

— Ernest Shackleton

There is always room at the top 

— Daniel Webster

I know for sure that what we dwell upon is who we become 

— Oprah Winfrey

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy 

— Dale Carnegie

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of 

— Benjamin Franklin