That is, if you don't feel like you belong, you are both less motivated and less likely to hang in there in the face of obstacles.

CNN: The importance of belonging

If you aren't sure you can take another blow from owning stocks, you probably don't belong on the trail anymore.

WSJ: The Intelligent Investor: Lessons From the Iditarod

"If you go in and take something that doesn't belong to you, it's stealing, " says Richard Busch, attorney for Bridgeport Music, the Detroit label that sued over the NWA recording.

FORBES: Name that Note

Old political hands have a saying: If you can't drink their whiskey, eat their food, smoke their cigars and turn down their requests, you don't belong in politics.

CNN: AllPolitics - Pundits and Prose - Charles Bierbauer

Find your way back to the mountains, where you know you belong, where your dreams can't go wrong.

NPR: Judy Collins, From Both Sides Now

Here in my state of Louisiana, we don't care what party you belong to, if you have good ideas to make life better for our people.

CNN: Transcript of Gov. Jindal's GOP response to Obama speech