"If you have the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed."
- David Viscott
"The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them. "
- Denis Waitley
"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day."
- Will Durant
"What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort. "
- Orison Swett Marden
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
- John Updike
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan
"One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape, then you can do anything, or practically anything."
- Sir John Gielgud
..."I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
"Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin. "
- Robert Collier