Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. – Charles Buxton
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances. – Benjamin Franklin
This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. – William Shakespeare
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. – Solomon Ibn Gabirol
We become what we think about all day long. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. – Helen Keller
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – vHenry David Thoreau
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has. – Confucius
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure–which is: Try to please everybody. – Herbert Bayard Swope
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. – Bill Cosby