What you focus on with thought and feeling is what you attract into your experience, whether or not it’s something you want  

— Bob Doyle

Difficulties are just things to overcome‚ after all  

— Ernest Shackleton

People only see what they are prepared to see 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many only learn in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people 

— Will Rogers

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

— Henry W. Longfellow

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking 

— JK Galbraith

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune 

— Jim Rohn

You cannot change the direction and the forces of the wind. But you can change the setting of your own sail 

— Jim Rohn

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

— Napoleon Hill

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions 

— Wendell Holmes

We don’t see things the way they are, we see things the way we are 

— Talmud

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self 

— Hindu Proverb

The essential thing is not knowledge, but character 

— Joseph Le Conte

Leadership: The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because they want to do it 

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

To earn more you must learn more 

— Brian Tracy

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible 

— Arthur C. Clarke

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop 

— Confucius

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom 

— Aristotle

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