“Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” — Bruce Lee

“If you want something you have never had, you must be willing to do something you have never done.” — Thomas Jefferson

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.” — Ryan Blair

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” — Tim Notke

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” — Albert Einstein

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” — Carl Gustav Jung

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” (the shape of a compound interest curve). — Confucius

“A year from now you may wish you had started today.” (the slow process of actual learning by doing) — Karen Lamb

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.” (you thought you cannot do) — Walter Bagehot

“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” — Kevin Ngo

“If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.” — Tony Gaskins

“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.” (sort of. identifying and using your “strengths” instead of trying to fix weakness is better). — Robin S. Sharma

“Today I will do what others won’t so tomorrow I can do what others can’t.” — Jerry Rice

“Just stick with it. What seems so hard now will one day be your warm up.” — Anonymous

“I already know what giving up feels like. I want to see what happens if I don’t.” — Neila Rey

“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.” — Lao Tzu

“An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.” — Goi Nasu