"I have no use for people who have learned the limits of the possible."

- Terry Pratchett

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

- Lester B. Pearson

"I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose, and still somehow, it's life's illusions I recall...I really don't know life at all."

- Joni Mitchell, Both Sides, Now (1967)

"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

“Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.”

- Harold Rowe "Hal" Holbrook as Lou Mannheim in Wallstreet (1987)

“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”

- Alice Walker

“The quality of expectations determines the quality of our action.”

- Jean-Baptiste André Godin

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does!"

- William James

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

- E. E. Cummings

“Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are.”

- José Saramago

“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect."

- Margaret Mitchell as Ashley Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1936)

"I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I DEMAND of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action."

- Napoleon Hill

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

- Pablo Picasso

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far."

- Euripides

“Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.”

- Fay Weldon

"Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to."

- Henry van Dyke

“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”

- Stephen King

"The difference in people is their standards. PERIOD!"

"We all get what we tolerate." - Tony Robbins

“The only one who can beat me is me.”

- Michael Johnson

“The past cannot be cured.”

- Queen Elizabeth I

“Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble. Good news weakens me.”

- Charles F. Kettering

"Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew."

- Guillaume Apollinaire

“There are countless ways of attaining greatness, but any road to reaching one's maximum potential must be built on a bedrock of respect for the individual, a commitment to excellence and a rejection of mediocrity.”

- Buck Rodgers

“Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.”

- Garrison Keillor