The Quote Vault is a collection of quotes, I realized upon re-visiting Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich,” that thoughts are assets. As humans, we can actually visualize and create our own futures by seeing our thoughts and dreams through to reality. Enjoy…

“Life is a sum of all your choices.” – Albert Camus

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.” Tallulah Bankhead

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” – Ayn Rand

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

“Chance favors the prepared mind.” – Louis Pasteur

“Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.” – Karen Ravn

“Nothing will work unless you do.” — John Wooden

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.” – Nelson Mandela

“We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality” – Ayn Rand

“I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try.” – Nikki Giovanni

“Generosity is a wonder drug.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou

“It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.” – Brian Tracy

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill

“The road to success is always under construction” – Lily Tomlin

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Alva Edison

“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France

“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them” – Benjamin Franklin

“I’ve learned… That being kind is more important than being right.” — Andy Rooney

“We must not allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.” – Virginia Satir

“Really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great.” – Mark Twain

“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.” – Unknown

“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” -Albert Einstein

“Don’t read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.” -Jim Rohn

“The only difference between a rich person and a poor person is how they use their time”. – Robert Kiyosaki

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills

“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.” – Winston Churchill

“Money isn’t the most important thing in the World, but it ranks right up there with oxygen.” – Zig Ziegler

“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else” – Benjamin Franklin

“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.” – Shaquille ONeal

“Learn to help people with more than just their jobs; help them with their lives.” — Jim Rohn

“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.” – Marilyn vos Savant

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” – Jamie Paolinetti

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” — Confucius

“Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you.” – Marsha Norman

“Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.” – John D. Rockefeller

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

“A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires.” – H. Narasimhaiah

“The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.” – Anna Quindlen

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.” – John Wooden

“A vision is a clearly-articulated, results-oriented picture of a future you intend to create. It is a dream with direction.”- Jesse Zemel

“Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.” – John Jakes

“Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.” – Jim Rohn

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.” – Albert Einstein

“Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You never find yourself until you face the truth.” – Pearl Bailey

“Life is too important to be taken seriously.” – Oscar Wilde

“The reward of the teacher is the growth of the pupil.” – John C. Maxwell

“Be distinct or be extinct.” – Tom Peters

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln