“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”

-Anatole France

“Nothing happens unless first we dream”

-Carl Sandburg

“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it”

-Michelangelo

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes”

-Andrew Carnegie

“Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more upon it”

-Albert Schweitzer

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself”

-Norman Vincent Peale

“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome”

-Michael Jordan

“Conditions for creativity are to be puzzled; to concentrate; to accept conflict and tension; to be born everyday; to feel a sense of self”

-Erich Fromm

“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing”

-Rollo May

“I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and though throughout our lifetime”

-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Life is God's novel. Let him write it”

-Isaac Bashevis Singer

“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself”

-Maya Angelou

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change”

-Carl Rogers

“To fly, we have to have resistance”

-Maya Lin

“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”

-Vincent van Gogh

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination”

-Nelson Mandela

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn”

-C. S. Lewis

“Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us”

-Oscar Wilde

“A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The heart is the first feature of working minds”

-Frank Lloyd Wright

“Everyone has to learn to think differently, bigger, to open to possibilities”

-Oprah Winfrey

“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible”

-Dalai Lama

“Believe you can and you're halfway there”

-Theodore Roosevelt

“Be not simply good - be good for something”

-Henry David Thoreau

“A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on”

-John F. Kennedy

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference”

-Winston Churchill

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself”

-Leo Tolstoy

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”

-Henry David Thoreau

“Only a few things are really important”

-Marie Dressler

“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see”

-John Burroughs