Every Man Is the Maker of His Own Fortune – Alexander von Humboldt

"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice." Ayn Rand

"This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions." Ralph Waldo Trine