"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities."
– Vic Braden

"Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine."
– Dane Rudhyar

"The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable."
– Paul Tillich

"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating."
– Honoré de Balzac

"A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day."
– Albert Schweitzer

"It is the heart always that sees before the head can see."
– Thomas Carlyle

"The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart."
– Mencius

"Why should I deem myself to be a chisel when I could be the artist?"
– Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

"In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions."
– Henry Ward Beecher

"Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought."
– Henri-Louis Bergson

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
– Sara Teasdale

"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence."
– Lin Yutang

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
– Tuli Kupferberg

Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."
– Katharine Hepburn

"It is wisdom to believe the heart."
– George Santayana

I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."
– Etty Hillesum

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth."
– Benjamin Disraeli

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
– Anatole France

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
– e. e. cummings

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
– Helen Keller

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A person who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
– Albert Einstein

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."
– Vincent van Gogh

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
– Ursula K. Le Guin

"Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through. Face it!"
– Joseph Conrad

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
– Maya Angelou

"None will improve your lot if you yourself do not."
– Bertolt Brecht

"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes."
– John Ruskin

"One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
– Sigmund Freud

"Ruin and recovering are both from within."
– Epictetus

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power."
– Alfred Tennyson

"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
– Rita Mae Brow

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati

"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.…Success is shy — it won't come out while you're watching."
– Tennessee Williams

"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
– Carlos Castaneda

"Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do."
– Kathleen Winsor

"Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best."
– Marva Collins

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
– Baruch Spinoza

"I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is, why did other people stop?"
– William Stafford

"Can anything be sadder than work unfinished? Yes, work never begun."
– Christina Rossetti

"Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl."
– Saadi

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
– Anna Freud

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
– Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."
– Wally "Famous" Amos

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."
– George S. Patton

"Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed."
– Channing Pollack

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood."
– Marie Curie

"What is important is to keep learning, to enjoy challenge, and to tolerate ambiguity. In the end there are no certain answers."
– Matina Horner

"Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!"
– Charles Dickens

"We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart."
– Blaise Pascal

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates

"When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on — for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn."
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
– Freya Stark

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
– Kurt Vonnegut

"We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are."
– Tobias Wolff

'We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
– William Butler Yeats

"I get up. I walk. I fall down. Meanwhile, I keep dancing."
–  Rabbi Hillel

"We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn."
– Mary Catherine Bateson

"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
– Sarah Bernhardt

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman
 

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it." Pablo Picasso

"It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."
– C. S. Lewis

"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
– Admiral William Halsey

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
– Alexandre Dumas

"Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozey, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
– Billie Jean King

"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."
– Katharine Hepburn

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
– Michelangelo

"Your life becomes the thing you have decided it shall be."
– Raymond Charles Barker

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
– Truman Capote

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
– Tuli Kupferberg

"Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work — and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't."
– Lucille Ball
 

"Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same."
– Lois McMaster Bujold

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Courage is the human virtue that counts most — courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have."
– Robert Frost

"The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
– Mahatma Gandhi

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
– Dag Hammarskjöld

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
– Elanor Roosevelt

"What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence."
– Samuel Johnson

It is wisdom to believe the heart."
– George Santayana

"There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation."
– Margaret Deland

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
– Thomas Edison

" I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one's inner life. And that too is a deed."
– Etty Hillesum

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
– Lao-Tzu

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."
– Abraham Lincoln

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge

"Always behave like a duck — keep calm and unruffled
on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath."

"Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones."
– Phillips Brooks

"To realize one's nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for."
– Oscar Wilde

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
– Annie Dillard

"Just don't give up on trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."
– Ella Fitzgerald

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
– Mark Twain

"I have always believed that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value."
– Hermann Hesse

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."
– Carl Sandburg

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project."
– Abigail Van Buren

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail."
– Dorothea Brande

"Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by."
– Carl Sandburg

"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: Try to please everybody all the time."
– Herbert Bayard Swope

"Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."
– Leo Tolstoy

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
– George Sheehan

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
– Robin Williams

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
– Anna Quindlen

"No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty."
– Leon Wieseltier

"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."
– Henry Van Dyke

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is."
– Erich Fromm

"The best antidote I have found is to yearn for something. As long as you yearn, you can't congeal: There is a forward motion to yearning."
– Gail Godwin

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."
– Victoria Holt

"Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."
– Steve Jobs

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
– Andy Warhol

"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
– Frank Lloyd Wright

"Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out."
– James Bryant Conant

"Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
– John Updike

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."
– Peter Ustinov

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
– Winston Churchill

"We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again."
– Shana Alexander

"The Noah rule: Predicting rain doesn't count; building arks does."
– Warren Buffett

"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."
– Milan Kundera

"If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?"
– Dolores Huerta

"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."
– Eleanor Roosevelt

"When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time."
– St. Francis De Sales

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
– Theodore Seuss Giesel

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
– Anne Lamott

"People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning."
– Lao-Tzu

"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip."
– Will Rogers

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure."
– Jack Lemmon

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
– Abraham Lincoln

"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
– Helen Keller

"Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more."
– Louis L'Amour

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."
– Samuel Johnson

"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
– Carl Jung

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."– Thomas Jefferson
 

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
– Wayne Gretsky

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
– Anatole France

"Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."
– Ovid

"Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use."
– Ruth Gordon

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
– Grace Murray Hopper

"We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt."
– William Ernest Hocking

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them."
– Elbert Hubbard

When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves."
– Katherine Mansfield

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."
– George Eliot

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
– Mohandas Gandhi

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act."
– Charles Caleb Colton

"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
– Sara Teasdale

"Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed."
– Baltasar Gracián y Morales
"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
– Alexandre Dumas

"The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world."
– Bertie Charles Forbes

"We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt."
– William Ernest Hocking

"It's not what you are, but what you don't become that hurts."

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."
– William Connor Magee

"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."

– William C. Durant

"We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it."
– William Butler Yeats

"You miss 100% of the shots you never take."
– Wayne Gretsky

"Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes."
– Washington Irving

"Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

– Walter Savage Landor

"Believe that you can do it, under any circumstances. Because if you believe you can, then you really will. That belief just keeps you searching for the answers, then pretty soon you get it."
– Wally "Famous" Amos

"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."

– Virginia Satir

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
– Vincent Lombardi

"Laughter is the closest distance between two people."
– Victor Borge

"It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end."
– Ursula K. Le Guin

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."
– Tuli Kupferberg

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
– Truman Capote

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
– Thomas Jefferson

"Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise."
– Thomas J. Watson

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
– Thomas Edison

"When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this — you haven't."
– Thomas Edison
 

"Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
– Thomas A. Edison

"I learn by going where I have to go."
– Theodore Roethke

"Make voyages! -- Attempt them! -- there's nothing else."

– Tennessee Williams

"Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it."
– Mary Kay Ash

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
– T.S. Eliot

"Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
– Swami Sivananda Saraswati

"It may be those who do most, dream most."
– Stephen Leacock

"When one's expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have."
– Stephen Hawk

"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
– St. Francis of Assisi

"Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
– Socrates

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
– Sir Winston Churchill

"Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich." – Sir Thomas Browne

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
– Anna Freud

We are, each of us, angels with only one wing, and we can only fly embracing each other."
– Luciano Decrescenzo

"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
– Margaret Cho

"A bad habit never disappears miraculously; it's an undo-it-yourself project."
– Abigail Van Buren

"We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it."
– Abraham Lincoln

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that is my religion."
– Abraham Lincoln

"Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
– Admiral William Halsey

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
– Albert Einstein

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."

– Aldous Huxley

"Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is."
– Aleksei Peshkov

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus."
– Alexander Graham Bell

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."
– Alexandre Dumas

"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity."
– Amelia Earhart

"Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilization and mental culture."
– Anandibai Joshee

"The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself."
– Anna Quindlen

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up."
– Anne Lamott

"It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be."
– Anatole France

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."
– Annie Dillard

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
– Aristotle

"The gain in self-confidence of having