"If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room."
- Anita Roddick

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
-Mark Twain

"Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing."
-Denis Waitley

"Don't let the things you can't do get in the way of the things you can."
- John Wooden.
"Faith is taking the first step even if you do not see the whole staircase."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-Charles Schultz

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe."
-Anatole France

“Don't complain. Just work harder."
-Randy Pausch
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"The only difference between lunacy and genius is timing."
-David Tennant as Campbell Bain, TV mini-series "Takin' Over the Asylum" (1994)

"It is not about achieving your dreams, but living your life. If you lead your life the right way, the Karma will take care of itself, the dreams will come to you."
-Randy Pausch

"Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Whine less, breathe more.Talk less, say more.Love more, and all good things will be yours."
- Swedish Proverb

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread."
- Mother Teresa

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Elenor Roosevelt

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten,
Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."
-Benjamin Franklin

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
-Robin Williams as Mr. Keating, "The Dead Poet's Society" (1989)

"Read as much as you can. Keep writing and then throwing it away until one day you do something that you don't think belongs in the bin.Stick to writing what you know about. Don't give up."
-- J.K. Rowling, March 4, 2004

"Some people are poets, some people are poems."-Geoff Boucher

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
-Cyril Connolly

Last Updated 5-13-2011