Words of wisdom and motivation can change your attitude in a moment. Take some time today to find your favorites and copy them somewhere they will be when you need them most.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. --Seneca

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." --Thomas Jefferson

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. --Emerson

"You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club." --Jack London

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome." --William James

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  "Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work." --Gustave Flaubert

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." --Albert Einstein

"The world belongs to the energetic." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." --James Russell Lowell

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." --Mohandas Gandhi

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"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." --G.B. Shaw

"Storms make oaks take roots." --Proverb

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. --Henry David Thoreau

"Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity." --Seneca

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson