"No man can tell what the future may bring forth, and small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises."

- Demosthenes

“The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.”

 - Wallace Wattles

“Big things are expected of us, and nothing big ever came of being small.”

- William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton

"We must always take risks. That is our destiny."

- T.S. Eliot

"... I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread."

"I tire so of hearing people say,

Let things take their course.

Tomorrow is another day.

I do not need my freedom when I'm dead.

I cannot live on tomorrow's bread."

-Langston Hughes

"Do not abuse life. Live in to-day. Be reverent towards each day."

- Romain Rolland

“Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.”

- Robert Collier

"The universe doesn’t give you what you ask for with your thoughts - it gives you what you demand with your actions."

- Steve Maraboli

"It's easy to embrace hopelessness when things seem insurmountable and yet...It's not that difficult to overcome these seemingly ghastly problems. What's hard is to decide. Most difficult situations will resolve themselves if you are persistent and if you don't give up entirely."

- Robert Downey, Jr.

"To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

- James Arthur Lovell Jr.

“The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.”

- Ayn Rand

"My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will."

- William James

"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."

- Jim Morrison

“Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.”

- Desiderius Erasmus

"One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!”

- Shel Silverstein

"All things lie dark in possibility."

- William Saroyan

"Adventure is worthwhile in itself."

- Amelia Earhart

"Failures are made only by those who fail to dare, not by those who dare to fail."

- Lester B. Pearson

"There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic."

- Anaïs Nin