“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” - Mark Twain
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” - Thomas Edison
“Do not wait to strike until the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” - William B. Sprague
“Continuous effort — not strength or intelligence — is the key to unlocking our potential.” - Liane Cardes
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” - Jim Ryun
“Nothing will work unless you do.” - John Wooden
“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.” - Jack Canfield
“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” - Tommy Lasorda
“Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals.” - Henry Ford
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude.” - Thomas Jefferson
“Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.” - Marva Collins
“Success doesn’t mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle.” - Edward Bliss
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” - Henry Ford
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” - Henry Ford
“Ideas without action are worthless.” - Harvey Mackay
“Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.” - Napoleon Hill
“Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.” - Alfred A. Montapert
“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden
“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.” - Albert Einstein
“Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.” - Dale Carnegie
“The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.” - Dale Carnegie
“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration and expectation.” - Jack Nicklaus
“We aim above the mark to hit the mark.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.” - Fitzhugh Dodson
“First you write down your goal; your second job is to break down your goal into a series of steps, beginning with steps which are absurdly easy.” - Fitzhugh Dodson
“Our only limitations are those we set up in our own minds.” - Napoleon Hill
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” - Mahatma Gandhi
