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Drive Your Self To Own Your Life

1) “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.” – William Ernest Henley
2) “If not now, when? If not here, where? If not me, who?” – Steve Geiger
3) “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Teddy Roosevelt
4) “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
5) “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

FOSTER AN AUTHENTIC LIFE

1. “Where talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation.” – Aristotle

2. “The two most important days in your life are the day you’re born and the day you discover why.” – Mark Twain

3. “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman

4. “To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.” – E. E. Cummings

5. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

6. “Life is about being and becoming, not having and getting.” – Stephanie Seabrook Hedgepath

DREAM BIGGER

1. “Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible.” – Claude T. Bissell
2. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill
3. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Earl Nightingale
4. “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
5. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

"Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going."

According to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck, when we have a "growth mindset," we believe that our intelligence, creative abilities, and character are things that we can improve in meaningful ways. We can always learn and get better at what we do.

Dweck, author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, asserts that adopting a growth mindset can help us succeed more and be happier -- both at work and in our lives.

Here are 17 quotes that will inspire and motivate you to embrace and develop your own growth mindset -- and get more out of your work, and your life.

1. "Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all." -- Dale Carnegie

2. "Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance." -- Samuel Johnson

3. "You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." -- Margaret Thatcher

4. "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein

5. "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." -- Joshua Marine

6. "Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -- George Bernard Shaw

7. "The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss." -- Thomas Carlyle

8. "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney

9. "Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success." -- Napoleon Hill

10. "Becoming is better than being." -- Carol Dweck

11. "The problem human beings face is not that we aim too high and fail, but that we aim too low and succeed." -- Michelangelo

12. "We find comfort among those who agree with us, and growth among those who don't." -- Frank A. Clark

13. "A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake." -- Confucius

14. "Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs." -- Vaclav Havel

15. "To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing." -- Unknown

16. "Everybody dies, but not everybody lives." -- A. Sachs

17. "My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail." -- Sara Blakely