Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
– Anais Nin

Fortune favors the bold. – James Arthur Ray

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Be Bold! – Deberah Bringelson

Don’t go through life, grow through life – Eric Butterworth

Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. – William Faulkner

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve
- Napoleon Hill

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier

No one knows what he can do until he tries. – Publilius Syrus

Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
– Harold Whitman

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. – Benjamin Disraeli

Seek first to understand, then to be understood. – Stephen Covey

This is the first day of the rest of your life. You are today what your thoughts have brought. – James Allen

Our aspirations are our possibilities. –Robert Browning

Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other’s think safe, dreaming more than others think practical and expecting more than others think possible. He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
– Chinese proverb

Every man dies. Not every man truly lives. –Braveheart

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. - Helen Keller

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When God closes a door, She opens a window. What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God.
– Anthony Dalla Vila

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em “certainly I can!” and get busy and find out how to do it.
– Theodore Roosevelt

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. – John Keywood

You must do the things you think you cannot do.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Every day in every way, I am getting better and better. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance. – Bruce Barton

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. – Marilyn Vos Savant

I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work, the more I have of it. – Thomas Jefferson

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
– Oscar Wilde

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore. Live life with passion. If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy. It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference. – W. Mitchell

The man who has no imagination has no wings. – Mohamed Ali

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. – Napoleon Hill

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes. - Henry Kaiser

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
– Carl Bard

Love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth. – Satchel Paige

The only gift is a portion of thyself. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson

Success doesn’t come to you, you go to it. – Marva Collins

Get busy living or get busy dying. – Stephen King

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up for that is just the place and time the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
– Mark Twain

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony – Mahatma Gandhi

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one. – John Lennon

In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. – Aristotle

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action. – Benjamin Disraeli

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. - Benjamin Franklin

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever. – Mahatma Gandhi

Live out of your imagination, not your history. -Stephen Covey

It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get back up. – Vince Lombardi

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Success leaves clues. – Jim Rohn

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? – Abraham Lincoln

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
– Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. – Helen Keller

We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing. –George Bernard Shaw

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows no victory or defeat.
– Theodore Roosevelt

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which opened for us. – Alexander Graham Bell

God doesn’t make junk Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. – Sir Winston Churchill

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
– Albert Einstein

There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. – William A. Ward

If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. – Milton Berle

Change your thoughts, change your life. – James Allen

You can have everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziegler

Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it. – Danny Kaye

Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

You create your reality. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
– Albert Einstein

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. The seem more afraid of life than death.
– James F. Bymes

Our life is what our thoughts make it. – Marcus Aurelius

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one. – Elbert Hubbard

You can do anything you put your mind to. Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. –Thomas Jefferson

Great oaks from little acorns grow. – Proverb