“You’ve got to develop mental strength. And you develop mental strength with the will. The will is the mental faculty that gives you the ability to hold one idea under the screen of your mind to the exclusion of all outside distractions.” – a quote by whom?

  • Bob Proctor
“Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – a quote by whom?
  • Vince Lombardi
“Pride is holding your head up when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.” – a quote by whom?
  • Bryce Courtenay
“When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them. – a quote by whom?
  • Karen E. Quinones Miller
“Always be yourself and have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and try to duplicate it.” – a quote by whom?
  • Bruce Lee
“Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” – a quote by whom?
  • Tina Fey
“When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.” – a quote by whom?
  • Jodi Picoult

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” – a quote by whom?

  • Golda Meir

“Low self-confidence isn’t a life sentence. Self-confidence can be learned, practiced, and mastered – just like any other skill. Once you master it, everything in your life will change for the better.” – a quote by whom?

  • Barrie Davenport
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – a quote by whom?
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson

“But failure has to be an option in art and in exploration – because it’s a leap of faith. And no important endeavor that required innovation was done without risk. You have to be willing to take those risks.” – a quote by whom?

  • James Cameron
“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.” – a quote by whom?
  • E.E. Cummings
“The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.” – a quote by whom?
  • Paul Tillich
“If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – a quote by whom?
  • Thomas Alva Edison
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.” – a quote by whom?
  • Andre Dubus

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.” – a quote by whom?

  • Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Part of being an optimist is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair.” – a quote by whom?

  • Nelson Mandela