The Power of Vision and Direction

 "Don’t underestimate the power of vision and direction. These are irresistible forces, able to transform what might appear to be unconquerable obstacles into traversable pathways and expanding opportunities."

-- Jordan B. Peterson

Only You Can Make Yourself a Victim

"No one can make you a victim but you. We become victims not because of what happens to us but when we choose to hold on to our victimization. We develop a victim’s mind—a way of thinking and being that is rigid, blaming, pessimistic, stuck in the past, unforgiving, punitive, and without healthy limits or boundaries. We become our own jailors when we choose the confines of the victim’s mind."

-- Edith Eva Eger

Why You Need to Think of Your Goals

 "Without goals you are unfocused and the chance of being successful is severely reduced. So, before embarking on your Willpower Challenge, let’s look at the purpose of goals and then assess your goal planning skills."

-- Ros Taylor

Your Brain Speaks with Your Own Voice

"Self-talk has a way of creating its own reality. Telling yourself you can do something can help it happen. Telling yourself you can't do something can make it more likely to be true. And because your brain speaks with your own voice, whatever it says, it feels real and it feels true."

-- Gill Hasson

When A Person Does Not Know Their Purpose

 “A person who doesn’t know what the universe is, doesn’t know where they are. A person who doesn’t know their purpose in life doesn’t know who they are or what the universe is. A person who doesn’t know any one of these things doesn’t know why they are here. So what to make of people who seek or avoid the praise of those who have no knowledge of where or who they are?”

-— Marcus Aurelius 

If You Feel Scared Do It Anyway

 "The lesson here is . . . if you’re scared — do it anyway. Let your “why,” your passion, drive you and motivate you each day to move you closer to your goals."

--  Megan Tull

Learn The Lessons Failure Teach

 "Every young person trying out life with a purpose—was to put aside the laughs from the sidelines, to put aside the bad guidance from foolish friends who say Stop trying, you just look silly, and focus on your purpose. Allow yourself to fail, and learn from your failings. There is no loss in failure if you learn the lessons failure has to teach."

-- Peter S. Temes

You Will Thrive In Spite of Your Losses

 "When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them? The word for that is healing."

-- Cheryl Strayed

No One Owes Us Anything

 "Listen, no one owes you anything. We get what we want by a combination of a bit of luck and a lot of hard work. If you want stuff, you work. Simple as that." 

-- Richard Templar

Choose To Break The Barriers Down

 "The whole thing has taught me that the barriers we put before ourselves don’t really exist. The only way barriers exist is in our heads. We create them, we feed them, and we choose to keep them alive. So we can also choose to break them own."

-- Katie Piper

The Chief Task in Life

 “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .”

-—Epictetus, Discourses

Keep Moving Till You Hit Your Limits

 "Life is about taking steps that move you forwards. You don’t have to worry about going forwards quickly. What matters is that you are moving and that you keep moving until you hit your limits."

-- John Bird

The Reason Why I Succeed

 "Jordan liked the idea of reaching young people, but he didn’t want his message to be about success—he wanted it to be about failure. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life,” he famously said, “and that is why I succeed.” That’s the line that made it onto the poster and into the minds of untold thousands of youngsters."

-- Michael Jordan

There is a Direct Cause and Effect

 "None of us should ever underestimate our ability to change people’s lives. There is a direct cause and effect of what we do here and what happens there. But if you want to help you have to actually do something. You can’t just talk about it. My motto is “If you want to make things happen, you have to make things.” Create an object, a slogan, a film, a little book, a badge, a hashtag, a Red Nose Day … make something so wonderful that it captures people’s hearts and minds so they can’t help but be dragged in and help. And even better, make it funny too. That’s all I have ever done."

-- Richard Curtis

The Thinking That You Chose To Believe

 "It's important to know, though, that neither negative thinking nor positive thinking is more real or true than the other. Either way of thinking could be real or true. But what does make one way of thinking more real is the one you choose to think and believe. As Shakespeare said, ‘For there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.’"

-- Gill Hasson

You Always Have A Choice To Make

 "The great news is that you always have a choice to make: you can either stay stuck and continue on the same unfulfilling path to nowhere, or you can choose a different path, or—even better—you can create your own."

--  Megan Tull

Control What We Are What We Become

 “We may not always be able to control what is put in our path, but we can always control what we are . . .and what we will become.”

-- Les Brown

Discover One Thing At A Time

 "Young children discover one thing at a time. The tiniest detail sparks wonder. Because a young child doesn’t have the same awareness of time as an adult does, there isn’t a sense of “hurrying” to learn something. Each new discovery builds upon the last as an exciting body of knowledge, and experience is formed. Adults have often forgotten this natural perspective, and they put pressure on themselves to learn quickly or impatiently expect themselves to come to a solution immediately."

-- Julia Cameron

You Need Find To A Way To Believe

 "You somehow need to find a way to believe, to keep going. But it’s not enough to just say to yourself “be confident”, you can’t just BE confident, you have to surround yourself with people who bring the best from you, who will help you, who will help you grow that confidence. I’m like Britain’s Got Talent. I need my three yeses. I need my wife, my mother and my agent to all say, “Yes, that was good.” Then it’s like, all right, that works, I can keep going. I put my success down to that: my wife, my family, my support network. My three yeses."

-- Michael McIntyre

Don't Hoard It As You Will Die Without It

 "Any voice you have in this world, you have to use it. Whatever money you have the day you die, you die without it, so donate it. If you can only give an hour of your time, then do that." 

– Noella Coursaris Musunka

Find The Thing That Give You The Most Fulfilment

 "People tend not to be accidentally successful. If you see anyone very, very good at something, they tend to be very driven by what they do and they work really hard at it. So find the thing that makes you passionate and do that. And if you can find something you’re passionate about that also makes a difference to others, it will be a greatly fulfilling quality in your life. In the end, the things that give the most fulfilment are the things you do for others."

-- Tony Blair

Foster A Love of Reading

 "If there’s just one piece of advice I could give, then I would urge people to foster a love of reading. It’s our core skill as human beings. It’s the gateway to everything else. It gets you involved. It allows your curiosity to follow its course. It connects us across time and space. Books and reading are the most important things. Yes, I would say above all else, I would urge people to foster a love of reading. Start as early as you can and keep on reading."

-- Bill Gates

No Substitute for Own Positive Attitude

 "There simply is no substitute for having your own positive attitude. It gives you the motivation, energy and ability to succeed, it enables you to be happy and keeps you going through the toughest times."

-- Gill Hasson

Single Most Important Piece of Advice

 "My single most important piece of advice is stay healthy. It’s too easy to become consumed by the issues that plague this country. It can have an egregious effect on you. People engaged in the fight lose their health, their mind, their life. So do whatever you need to do to stay healthy – get a therapist, eat well, exercise. You need to stay strong, to stay healthy, to be in the fight for longer."

-- Patrisse Khan-Cullors 

Humility Will Help You Learn

 "Stay keenly aware of the vastness of our ignorance.There is so much we don’t know, so really put the effort into scraping at the edges of our knowledge. And remember, the most interesting, rewarding and fascinating thing is to be wrong, to discover, “oh, I thought I was right, but now I am seeing something that I hadn’t seen before.” So be prepared to listen to that voice inside that says “I really know very little about what’s happening here.” That humility will help you learn."

-- David Eagleman

Look Fear In The Eyes

 "We all have what it takes, inside us. Trust yourself, trust your intuition. Don’t let someone else be in control of your destiny, and don’t not go after your passion because of fear. Look fear in the eyes and say, 'I am coming for you.'"

-- Laila Ali

Don't Just Do What Everyone is Doing

 "If you see a problem, and you get irritated by that problem, then consider if that is something you can fix by becoming an entrepreneur. Don’t accept it. Don’t just do what everyone else is doing. Be contrarian. Challenge the current way of doing something. Not only will you find that more exciting, but that sense of mission and purpose, of having an impact you can be proud of, means you are more likely to be successful. And to enjoy the journey more."

-- Niklas Zennstrom

Live Without The Burden of Secrets Life

"The bottom line is there is nothing better than going through life with no secrets. So be open about who you are as a person. Wake up in the morning and be yourself. Live your life unashamed of who you are and without the burden of secrets."

-- Caitlyn Jenner

Maintenance of Aim is Utmost Important

 "Well, it starts with the usual stuff that you hear: work hard, be lucky. No one is successful without those two things. But the most important thing of all is maintenance of aim. If I could pass on one thing, it is that. My business success came from maintenance of aim. I said to myself, no matter what else I will make the best programmes I can. My political life: maintenance of aim again – get equality for gay rights, no matter what else was going on in my life. And that’s what it’s about, fight the distractions, keep coming back to your thing, the thing that’s most important to you."

-- Lord Waheed Alli