``Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.´´
                                                          — Hank Aaron

``Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.´´
                                                          — Marianne Williamson in Return to Love

"If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up." — Norman Vincent Peale

"Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground." — Anonymous

"Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out." — James Conant

"When you are working progressively, step-by-step toward something that is important to you, you generate within yourself a continuous feeling of success and achievement. You feel more positive and motivated. You feel more in control of your own life. You feel happier and more fulfilled. You feel like a winner, and you soon develop the psychological momentum that enables you to overcome obstacles and plow through adversity as you move toward achieving the goals that are most important to you." — Brian Tracy

"There is no failure, only feedback." – Kyan Douglas from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

"The voice of our original self if often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart." — Julia Cameron

"The beginning is always today." - Mary Wollstonecraft-Shelly

"Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do." — Unknown

As you go the way of life you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think." — Native American Proverb.

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future." — Deepak Chopra

"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self respect springs." - Joan Didion

"Life is not about how fast you run, or how high you climb, but how well you bounce." — Grandpa’s Country Wisdom (Author Unknown)

"Will is strengthened when we decide to do something and then do it; it weakens when we decide to do something and then don't." — W. Timothy Gallwey

"Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it because it gives any challenge or any occupation, no matter how frightening or difficult, a new meaning. Without enthusiasm you are doomed to a life of mediocrity but with it you can accomplish miracles." — Og Mandino, 1923-1996, Author and Speaker

"Courage is resistance to fear and mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." — Mark Twain

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." — Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible." — Doug Larson

On self-criticism: "Don't water your weeds." — Harvey Mackay

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." — George Elliot

"The Divine Design of my life now comes to pass. I now fill the place that I can fill and no one else can fill. I now do the things which I can do and no one else can do." —Florence Scovel Shinn

"I’ve been terrified every day of my life but that's never stopped me from doing everything I wanted to do." — Georgia O'Keefe

"Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life. People succeed because they make maps to their destination. Only those that risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." — T.S. Eliot

"Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It’s a lot of things. It’s something you can’t be afraid of, because you’ll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life." — Debbie Allen

"You will never "find" time for anything. If you want time, you must make it."  — Charles Burton

"People who are only good with hammers see every problem as a nail." — Dr. Abraham Maslow

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun." — Katherine Hepburn

"Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait." —  Thomas Edison

"Live the life you’ve imagined." —  Henry David Thoreau

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." — Elmer Letterman

"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." – Frank Capra

"Plunge boldly into the thick of life! Do it big, do it right, and do it with style." — Fred Astaire

"If you avoid certain situations because you’re worried about the outcome, you never get to learn what would have happened if you had faced those situations. You deprive yourself of the chance to see how you would have coped. When you decide to avoid, you experience a temporary state of relief, but you’re also left feeling powerless and deflated, as if you can’t control your own behavior. Eventually you become discouraged and disheartened as a vague sense of feeling paralyzed sets in. This is how avoidance slowly eats away your self-confidence over time... Push yourself to feel vulnerable – this allows you to learn that you can handle whatever happens, and that even the most difficult of emotions can’t destroy you. We’re all capable of feeling intense fear so we can escape life-threatening situations... But usually people avoid things that simple make them feel uncomfortable." – Holly Hazlett-Stevens, Ph.D. in Women Who Worry Too Much