Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
- Thomas Jefferson


Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison


Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.
- Napoleon Hill


I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson


Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson


Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin


Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
- Marilyn vos Savant (holds world record for highest IQ ever recorded)


Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant


The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
- Marilyn vos Savant


To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant


Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.
- Marilyn vos Savant


If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.
- Benjamin Franklin


He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.
- Benjamin Franklin


He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
- Benjamin Franklin


Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?
- Benjamin Franklin


If you would know the value of money, go try to borrow some; for he that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
- Benjamin Franklin


There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.
- Thomas Jefferson


It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson


Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
- Thomas Jefferson


He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson


He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
- Thomas Jefferson


Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
- Thomas Jefferson


Power is not alluring to pure minds.
- Thomas Jefferson


That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.
- Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson


The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the tracts which favor that theory.
- Thomas Jefferson


To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
- Thomas Jefferson


We are all born geniuses and trained by society to become idiots.
- Albert EInstein


We are all born with enormous potential, and our experiences thereafter defeat that.
- Marilyn vos Savant


There are millions of Einsteins in the world, doing virtually nothing with their capabilities.
- Marilyn vos Savant


In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity.
- Albert Einstein


Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
- Albert Einstein


Nothing in life has meaning except for the meaning you give it.
- T Harv Eker


When Heaven is about to confer a great office on any man, it first exercises his mind with suffering, and his sinews and bones with toil.
- Unknown


I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, German Statesman


A great occasion or opportunity is worth to a person exactly what their preparation enables them to make of it.
- J. B. Matthews


It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky. People identify with him until there is formed a parade of men and women thus inspired.
- George Matthew Adams


The Goal of most leaders is to get people to think highly of them as a leader. But the goal of the exceptional leader is to get people to think highly of themselves.
- Chris Haggerty


Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
- Foster McLaughlin


Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without any loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill


Passion is where your heart's deepest gladness meets the world's greatest need.
- Frederick Buechner


We've all been given the same plot of land to work. It's what we do with that land that will determine greatness and success.
- Earl Nightingale


If you think you can enrich yourself by diluting others, you can only end by diluting yourself. Just as surely as you breathe, you'll get back what you put out.
- Earl Nightingale


Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
- Earl Nightingale


Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
- Earl Nightingale


Man becomes what he thinks about.
- Earl Nightingale


A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
- Earl Nightingale


Many of life's failures were people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas Edison


Ensuing comfort and happiness lie not in the mere possession of money, but in the joy of the activity that causes wealth -- of the work and achievement for the good of others.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt