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

— B. R. Haydon

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it 

— Ted Williams

Experience is the child of thought and thought is the child of action 

— Benjamin Disraeli

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day  

— James Joyce

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes 

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Confucius

The will to win‚ the desire to succeed‚ the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence  

— Confucius

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health  

— Henry David Thoreau

It matters not what a person is born but what they choose to be 

— Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other 

— Abraham Lincoln

Happiness depends on ourselves 

— Aristotle

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that 

— Vincent Norman Peale

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning‚ but anyone can start today and make a new ending 

—  Maria Robinson

Wherever you are - be all there  

— Jim Elliot

There is no happiness except in the realisation that we have accomplished something 

— Henry Ford

For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour 

— Mary Kay Ash

I will prepare and some day my chance will come  

— Abraham Lincoln

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia 

— Anonymous

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

— Thomas Babington Macaulay