“How am I going to live today in order to create the tomorrow I’m committed to?” – Anthony Robbins

“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dryrot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.” – Jack London

“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” – Henry David Thoreau

“If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.” – Richard Martin Stern

“In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a present to a future good, or a personal to a general one, can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors.” – Horace Mann

“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot

“Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.” – Samuel Johnson

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.” – Moliere

“Advice is not disliked because it is advice, but because so few people know how to give it.” – Leigh Hunt

“It isn’t always others who enslave us. Sometimes we let circumstances enslave us; sometimes we let routine enslave us; sometimes we let things enslave us; sometimes, with weak wills, we enslave ourselves. sometimes we partake of detrimental things that we think will soothe our nerves, minds or imaginations-things we think will helps us to escape from reality. But no man is free if he is running away from reality. And no man is free if he is running away from himself.” – Richard L Evans

“All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.” – William S Halsey

“Let your minds be filled with the goal of being like the Lord, and you will crowd out depressing thoughts as you anxiously seek to know Him and do His will.” – Ezra Taft Benson

“All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke

“Life gives to all the choice, you can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish, you can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or you can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, progressive, useful, colorful, rich.” – Spencer W Kimball

“Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Don’t waste time. Don’t waste it in idleness; don’t waste it in regretting the time already wasted; don’t waste it in resolutions a thousand times repeated, never to be carried out. Don’t waste your time. Use all of it. Sleep, work, rest, think.” – Arthur Brisbane

“Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Nothing great will ever be achieved without great mean, and men are great only if they are determined to be so.” Charles De Gaulle

“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” – Channing Pollock

“What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.” – Alexander Graham Bell

“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.” – Jimmy Carter

“A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.” – William Arthur Ward

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.” – Alexander Pope

“A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop.” – Robert Hughes

“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.” – Charles Darwin

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.” – John Christian Bovee

“A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A Shedd

“Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified buldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.” – Dr. A. B. Meldrum

“A smile is a curved line that sets things straight.” – Unknown

“Decision and determination are the engineer and fireman of our train to opportunity and success.” Burt Lawlor

“Determination is the wake-up call to the human will.” Anthony (Tony) Robbins

“Do it now. You become successful the moment you start moving toward a worthwhile goal.” – Samuel Johnson

“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.” – Ghandi

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s a very funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.” William Somerset Maugham

“When we know that even one person loves us unconditionally, we feel a connection to everyone else. We feel included in the family of all mankind.” – Greg Baer

“I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be.” – Joan Didion

“In the last several years, while meeting and spending time with people who have become inordinately successful, I have observed several common traits among them. Two of those traits stand out. One is they have a calling, which they have discovered and are implementing. The other is they have made mountains of mistakes in the process of becoming ‘successful.’ THE GLEAMING MOUNTAIN OF SUCCESS IS ACTUALLY A PILE OF TRASH – a pile of the mistakes we have made. The difference between the successful and the troubled is not error-free living; it is that BY DISCOVERING AND IMPLEMENTING A LIFE CALLING, THE SUCCESSFUL STAND ON THEIR PILE OF TRASH, while the troubled sit under theirs.” – Dave Ramsey

“Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.” – Jack Canfield