I love quotes. Specially when they are in the context of a chapter in a book.

These gems I found from Brian Mayne’s Goal Mapping, How To Turn Your Dreams Into Reality.. I have not finished the book yet but I enjoy the great wisdom contained in each line, how they inspire me and make me think.

Here are some of them:

If we all did the things we are
capable of doing we would literally
astound ourselves. –Thomas Edison

Happiness is not an accident. Nor
is it something you wish for.
Happiness is something you design.
– Jim Rohn
He who knows much about others may
be learned, but he who understands
himself is more intelligent. He who
controls others may be powerful,
but he who has mastered himself is
mightier still. – Lao Tsu

Wealth is the product of a man’s
ability to think. –Ayn Rand

Most people search high and wide
for the keys to success. If they only
knew, the key to their dreams lies
within. – George Washington Carver
The greatest discovery of my
generation is that man can alter
his life by merely altering his
attitude of mind. – William James

I am not discouraged, because every
wrong attempt discarded is another
step forward. – Thomas Edison

Failure is, in a sense, the highway
to success. – John Keats

A smooth sea never made a skilled
mariner. – Old English Proverb

The measure of success is not whether
you have a tough problem to deal with,
but whether it’s the same problem you
had last year. – John Foster Dulles
Failure equals a few errors in judgment,
repeated every day. – Jim Rohn

You don’t fail when you fall; you fail
when you refuse to get up. –Anonymous
Your own mind is a sacred enclosure
into which nothing harmful can enter
except by your permission.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose
the good we oft might win, by fearing to
attempt. –William Shakespeare

Concerning all acts of initiatives and
creation, there is one elementary truth
– that the moment one definitely commits
oneself, the Providence moves too.
–W. H. Murray

People with goals succeed because they
know where they are gong. It’s as simple
as that. –Earl Nightingale

The most important thing about goals
is having one. –Geoffry F. Abert

You must have courage to bet on your ideals,
to take calculated risks and act. Everyday
living requires courage if life is to be
effective and bring happiness. - Maxwell Maltz

No army can withstand the strength of an
idea whose time has come. –Victor Hugo
You, too, can determine what you want.
You can decide on your major objectives,
targets, aims and destination.
– W. Clement Stone

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

We were born to make manifest the glory of
God that is within us. It is not just in some
of us; it is in everyone. –Marianne Williamson

We are co-creators with God, not puppets on
a string waiting for something to happen.
– Leo Booth

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an
automatic response. – Michael Bartel

It is the mind that make good or ill, that
make wretch or happy, rich or poor.
–Edmund Spenser
There are no great people in this world,
only great challenges which ordinary
people rise to meet.
–William Frederick Halsey, Jr.

The discipline of writing something down is
the first step toward making it happen.
– Lee Iacocca

The ability to discipline yourself to delay
gratification in the short term in order to
enjoy greater rewards in the long term is
the indispensable prerequisite for success.
– Brian Tracy

Chance favors the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur
It’s not what you are that holds you back;
it’s what you think you are not. – Denis Waitley

Habit is either the best of servants or
the worst of masters. – Nathaniel Emmons
The more you can dream the more you can do.
– Michael Korda

Thus to be independent of public opinion is
the first formal condition of achieving
anything great.
-G. W. F. Hegel

Creative ideas reside in people’s minds
but are trapped by fear or rejection.
Create a judgment-free environment and
you’ll unleash a torrent of creativity.
– Alex Osborn
If you’ve never been sacred or embarrassed
or hurt, it means you never take chances.
– Julia Sorel

Mistakes are lesons of wisdom. The past
cannot be changed. The future is yet
in your power. – Hugh White

Never let the shadow of a failure block
the sunlight of success. – Anonymous

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day,
teach a man to fish and let him feed himself
for life. – Anonymous

Things turn out the best for the people who
make the best of the way things turn out.
– John Woodes

The greatest science in the world; in heaven
and on earth; is love. – Mother Teresa
The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimist
lends encouragement. - William Arthur Ward

In a full heart there is a room for everything,
and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
– Antonio Porchia

There is more hunger for love and appreciation
in this world than for bred. - Mother Teresa