"Reflect upon your present blessings–of which every man has many–not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

~Charles Dickens

“The greatest use of your life is to invest it in that which outlasts it.”

~William James

"You owe it to yourself to invest in yourself."

~Rob Schwartz

“Never compromise who you are personally to become who you wish to be professionally.”

~Janice Bryant Howroyd

"I would love to live like a river flows, carried by the surprise of its own unfolding."

~John O'Donohue

"Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation."

~Gustave Flaubert

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."

~Teddy Roosevelt

"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

~Beverly Sills