"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives." ~ Tony Robbins

"Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently."
~ William Ward

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye."
~ Helen Keller

"Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.'"
~ Marilyn Monroe

"You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else." ~ Albert Einstein

"Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out." ~ Katherine Dunham

"Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort." ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning." ~ Dolly Parton

"I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high water mark of pure and useful living."
~ Booker T. Washington

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold." ~ Euripides

"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people." ~ Leo Burnett

"Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service."
~ Henry Ford

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful." ~ Zig Ziglar

"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse." ~ Henry Dyke

"Among the things you can give and still keep are your words, a smile, and a grateful heart." ~ Zig Ziglar

"Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul."
~ Henry Ward Beecher

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
~ Pablo Picasso

"None of us wants to admit that we hate someone... When we deny our hate we detour around the crisis of forgiveness. We suppress our spite, make adjustments, and make believe we are too good to be hateful. But the truth is that we do not dare to risk admitting the hate we feel because we do not dare to risk forgiving the person we hate." ~ Lewis B. Smedes

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Diversity: the art of thinking independently together." ~ Malcolm Forbes