You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water 

— Rabindranath Tagore

How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to? 

— Tony Robbins

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him  

— Galileo Galilei

Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats 

— A. Branson Alcott

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life 

— William Ellery Channing

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes 

— Marcel Proust

The less people speak of their greatness the more we think of it 

— Lord Bacon

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves 

— Thomas Edison

We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts 

— Madeleine Lengle

Wherever you are - be all there  

— Jim Elliot

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

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life  

— Tony Robbins

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past‚ but by the responsibility for our future  

— George Bernard Shaw

The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed fast as I could 

— Paul Hogan, Actor

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step  

— Lao Tzu

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself 

— B. R. Haydon

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often it 

— W. Somerset Maugham

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking 

— Voltaire

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work  

— Thomas A. Edison

It’s always about appreciation. It pulls things in‚ it attracts support 

—  Dr John Gray