My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

If you think you can do it, you can. 
- John Burroughs

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. 
- John Burroughs

Only a few things are really important. 
- Marie Dressler

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. 
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.                                       - William James

Patience is the companion of wisdom. 
- Saint Augustine

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.                                                                                                  

- Albert Ellis

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice. 
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. 
- Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. 

- Edward de Bono 
                                                                                                 

If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd. 

- Edward de Bono