“You must never feel badly about making mistakes… as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.”— Madeleine L'Engle, amazon.com
“You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“We’ve bought into the idea that education is about training and ‘success’, defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and to challenge. We should not forget that the true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.”— Chris Hedges, amazon.com
“The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.”— Shia LaBeouf, amazon.com
“You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.”— Michael Dell, books.google.com
“Too many people out there tell us what we can and cannot do but…they don’t know who we are, what’s put in us.”— Alex Rogers, amazon.com
“Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ev…”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”— Randy Pausch, amazon.com
“It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.”— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com
“When you find yourself in the thickness of pursuing a goal or dream, stop only to rest. Momentum builds success.”— Suzy Kassem, amazon.com
“Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.”— Julien Smith, amazon.com