The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes 

— Earl of Beaconsfield

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration 

— Evan Esar

Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life 

— Marci Shimoff

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

Energy and persistence conquer all things 

— Benjamin Franklin

May you live all the days of your life 

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Aristotle

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed 

— Albert Einstein

There’s no abiding success without commitment  

— Tony Robbins

The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes 

— Proust

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

— Christian D Larson

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom 

— Bertrand Russell

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

— George Bernard Shaw

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living 

— Nelson Mandela

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you 

— Stewart E. White

People only see what they are prepared to see 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can imagine it‚ you can create it. If you dream it‚ you can become it 

—  William Arthur Ward

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems 

— Lee Iacocca

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will 

— Epictetus

No problem can stand the assault of sustained thinking 

— Voltaire