“Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are.”

– Les Brown

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”

– Confucious

“I will not allow yesterday’s success to lull me into today’s complacency, for this is the greatest foundation for failure.”

– Og Mandino

“Resentment always hurts you more than it does the person you resent.”

– Rick Warren

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.”

– William James

“In my experience, I have to say that there was very little critical difference between the net winning traders and the net losing traders in most areas. All of them had good understanding of the basic market fundamentals, used a solid technical analysis or research of some kind, and exercised a lot of personal discipline. The one thing that stood out, the one thing that separated the net winner from the net loser, all things being equal, was that the net winner had a trading plan in addition to his other skills. The net winner knew he was up against not just the market and his competitors, but he was up against himself, too. To guard against the possibility that he (the trader) could blow himself out of the water at any time if he wasn’t careful, that trader had a plan.”

– Jason Alan Jankovsky

“We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.”

– José Ortega y Gasset

“If you listen to financial TV, or read most market columnists, you’d think that investing is some kind of sport, or a war, or a struggle for survival in a hostile wilderness. But investing isn’t about beating others at their game. It’s about controlling yourself at your own game.”

– Jason Zweig

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams