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Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
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"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea.
It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience,
something that never has been and never could
have been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
The probability that we may fail
in the struggle ought not to deter us
from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
- Abraham Lincoln
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
Questioning cultural norms opens new vistas of happiness and purpose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only one who devotes himself to a cause
with his whole strength and soul
can be a true master.
For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
- Albert Einstein
The highest reward for a person's toil
is not what they get for it,
but what they become by it.
- John Ruskin
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
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