Every choice carries a consequence.  For better or worse, each choice is the unavoidable consequence of its predecessor.  There are not exceptions.  If you can accept that a bad choice carries the seed of its own punishment, why not accept the fact that a good choice yields desirable fruit?
— Gary Ryan Blair

Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee.
— Benjamin Franklin

Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants.
— Esther de Waal

It’s better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
— Oscar Wilde

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness.  Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

Debt robs a man of his self-respect and makes him almost despise himself.
— P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money Getting

I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.
— Edward Gibbon

We make our plans, and then our plans turn around and make us.
— F.W. Boreham

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
— Marcel Proust

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
— Thomas A. Edison

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably, thought and act.
— Orison Swett Marden

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessul men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan “press on” has solved and always will […]

Thought is useful when it motivates for action, and a hindrance when it substitutes for action.
— Bill Raeder

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology.  It means the mind sees “what is” and learns from “what is.”
— J. Krishnamurti

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation.  It is common sense to take a method and try it:  If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.  But above all, try something.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, May 22, 1932