Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals 

— Anonymous

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it 

— Confucius

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous 

— Abd-el-Kadar

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom 

— Aristotle

The important thing in life is to have great aim and to possess the aptitude and the perseverance to attain it 

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself 

— Theodore T. Hunger

Opportunity...often it comes in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat 

— Napoleon Hill

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom 

— Bertrand Russell

Live out of your imagination‚ not your history 

—  Stephen Covey

The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promise of impossibilities 

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

— Tony Robbins

Turn your wounds into wisdom  

— Oprah Winfrey

Your life only gets better when you get better 

— Brian Tracy

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest 

—  Mark Twain

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

— Galileo Galilei

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticise other 

— Christian D Larson

Leadership is action, not position 

— Donald H. McGannon

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well 

— Henry W. Longfellow

There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way 

— Christopher Morley

Life is not a problem to be solved‚ but a reality to be experienced  

— Soren Kierkegaard