If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Barbara Cook

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Benjamin Franklin

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

  Dr. Robert Schuller

Your outer circumstances are the mirror of your inner world. Change your inner world, and you change your outer world.

Remez Sasson

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Anne Frank

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

Aristotle

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Melody Beattie

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us: Concentrate our energy.

Denis Waitley

You get what you focus on.

David Justus

In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose - though not always what I pleased.

Lois McMaster Bujold

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before going to bed.

Bernard Baruch