Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

– William Shakespeare

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”

– John Quincy Adams

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”

– Langston Hughes

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”

– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker