Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

Remember that life’s most treasured moments often come unannounced.
Anonymous

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.
Anonymous

Let thy words be few.
Wisdom Words

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

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Warren Buffett

Thought is action in rehearsal.
Sigmund Freud

Men do less than they ought,
unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle

The only way around is through.
Robert Frost

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.
Lou Holtz

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

Inspiration and genius-one and the same.
Victor Hugo

The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.
Comer Cotrell

Create and stir other people to create.
Robert Frost

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
“Leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
Friedrich Engels

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
Benjamin Disraeli

Life is 10% of what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
John C Maxwell

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you’re too busy to help those around you succeed, you’re too busy.
Bob Moawad

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
Richard Bach

When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
Bill Clinton

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

The challenge is not to manage time, but to manage ourselves.
Steven Covey

Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Gordon B Hinckley

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
Confucius

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.
Thomas Jefferson

Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible.
Patrick Snow

Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?
Robert Browning

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.
Gerry Spence

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Leon J. Suenes

Always listen to the experts. They’ll tell you what can’t be done and why. Then do it.
Robert Heinlein

Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent.
President Dwight Eisenhower

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
Rabindranath Tagore

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
Albert Einstein

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.
Richard Bach

The steeper the mountain the harder the climb the better the view from the finishing line.
Anonymous

How far that little candle throws his beams. So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there’s no body at home.
Alexander Pope

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Goethe

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.
Thomas A. Bennett

Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Walt Disney

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such speed. It feels an impulsion this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond the horizons.
Richard Bach

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.
Hindu Proverb

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett

We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heartthrobs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
David Bailey

The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Bertrand Russell

It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, too, shall pass away.”
Abraham Lincoln

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson*