"As the Buddha said, "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." Unlike material possessions, which are usually finite, happiness is infinite."

- Tal Ben-Shahar, Happier

"Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."

- C. S. Lewis

"Fear is your real opponent. …It’s all about fear. If you kill fear, you win. If you kill fear, you have your best year ever. If you kill fear, you train like a madman. If you kill fear, you go to college for free. If you kill fear, you stand on the podium, you get paid, and you have strangers walk up to you and call you by name. When fear dies, you begin to live."

- Stan Beecham, Elite Minds

"Accept—then act. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life."

- Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now

"All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger. Roots entrench themselves and branches grow. The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. And the task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"Fear is the greatest single obstacle to success. We must control fear rather than permit it to control us."

- Napoleon Hill, The Science of Success

“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”

- Joseph Campbell

“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.”

- Doug Firebaugh

"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most."

- Abraham Lincoln

"You don’t need more time. You already have it. Right now, your life is exactly what your time allocation produces. If you want a different life, you need to reallocate your time toward what actually matters."

- Paul Mayer

"Action, however imperfect, is always the cost of entry."

- Sahil Bloom

"Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."

- Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

"If you don't ask, the answer is always no."

- Darren Hardy

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil."

- James Allen

"Failure is just feedback."

- Marie Forleo, Everything is Figureoutable

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"Goals are mileposts along the road of life; purpose is the direction the road takes."

- John Assaraf and Murray Smith, The Answer

"Focus on what you can control. Let go of what you can’t."

- Ryan Holiday

"Each day is like a winding path strewn with pearls and diamonds, emeralds and rubies, each one an opportunity for a positive experience. Unfortunately, most people hurry by without noticing them. And even when they do see a jewel, they rarely feel anything about it. Jewel after jewel left behind, lost forever."

- Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson