Everything can be taken from a man but…the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
-Victor Frankel

Things do not change; we change.
-Henry David Thoreau

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell

People are like stained glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

If man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears however, measured or far away.
-Thoreau

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness.

Concerning all acts of initiative and creation there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.

All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

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

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
-Shakespeare

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
-Dr. Robert Schuller

~I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
-Henry David Thoreau

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and his ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We have the conviction perhaps the illusion that we have more to say than appear in the page.
-Isac Bascheris Singer

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else..
-Erma Bombeck

All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
-Johann von Goethe

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
-Booker T. Washington

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
-Aldous Huxley

The Sundial--The shadow by my finger cast, divides the future from the past. Behind its unreturning line, the vanished hour, no longer thine. Before it lies the unknown hour in darkness and beyond thine power. One hour alone is in thine hands, the now on which the shadow stands.
-Wellesely College Sundial

The greater danger is not that your hopes are too high and you fail to reach them; but that they are too low and you do.
-Michelangelo

Sell your cleaverness and purchase bewilderment.
-Rumi

No one knows enough to be a pessimist.
-Unknown

A good plan executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.
-General George Patton

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
-Oliver Wendall Holmes

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
-Robert Schuller

There is a way to do it better...find it.
-Thomas Edison

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-Milton Berle

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
-Thomas A. Edison

Failure is success if we learn from it.
-Malcolm Forbes

Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
-Al Bernstein

The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in the mind.
-Thoreau

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
-Dale Carnegie

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
-Albert Einstein

If you are called to be a street sweeper, sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
-Martin Luther King, Jr

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.
-Katharine Hepburn

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
-Confucius

Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.
-Buddha