"The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor." Vince Lombardi

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one." Wayne Dyer

"If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy." Dale Carnegie

"If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it." Paulo Coelho

"Well done is better than well said." Benjamin Franklin

"Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing." Thomas Jefferson

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible." Tony Robbins

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best." Epictetus

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Henry David Thoreau

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground." Theodore Roosevelt

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." Helen Keller

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Out of clutter, find Simplicity. From discord, find Harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies Opportunity." Albert Einstein

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." Thomas A. Edison

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“When we are debating an issue, loyalty means giving me your honest opinion, whether you think I’ll like it or not. Disagreement, at this stage, stimulates me. But once a decision has been made, the debate ends. From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.” - Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell

“Life is a series of commas, not periods.” — Matthew McConaughey

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space." - Johnny Cash

"Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing." — Aristotle

"Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active - of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right." - Ingvar Komprad, founder of IKEA

"Your customer service never exceeds the culture you created." - Kevin Scott

"Over time, the person who approaches life with an openness to being wrong and a willingness to learn outperforms the person who doesn’t." - Farnam Street

“Great work tends to grow out of ideas that others have overlooked, and no idea is so overlooked as one that’s unthinkable.” - Paul Graham

"What the wise man does in the beginning, the fool does in the end." - Warren Buffett

"To develop physical and mental toughness, you have to be able to deny yourself pleasures that others are indulging in, that you could indulge in,other than the simple fact that you decided that you’re going to work at this time." - Jim Zorn

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed unless it's faced." - James Baldwin

"The person who helps others simply because it should or must be done, and because it is the right thing to do, is indeed without a doubt, a real superhero." - Stan Lee

"Success doesn't change you. Fame does." - Whitney Houston

"None are as empty as those who are full of themselves." - Benjamin Whichcote

“One sign that determination matters more than talent: there are lots of talented people who never achieve anything, but not that many determined people who don't.” - Paul Graham

"The hallmark of greatness is consistency." - Tony Gonzalez

“Who you are as a person is going to have more to do with your success in whatever you’re choosing to do than anything else.” - Alan Mulally

“A year from now, you will wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb

“Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing they can’t afford to lose.” —Thomas Edison

“The greatest cost you are going to pay as a leader is paying attention.” – Dr. Sam Chand

“Vacation won’t make things better. Changing jobs won’t make things better. Getting the recognition you deserve won’t make things better. Drugs won’t make things better. The only thing that will make things better is your relationship with yourself.” – Farnam Street

"There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” – J.K. Rowling