"If you advance confidently in the direction of your own dreams, endeavor to live the life which you've imagined, you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours" -Thoreau

"Walk in the ways of thine heart."
-- Ecclesiastes 11:19

"Hide not your talents, they for use were made."
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life."
-- Seneca

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

"Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
-- Robert Byrne

"What is the use of running if we are not on the right way?"
"Was hilft laufen wenn man nicht auf den rechten Weg ist?"
--German Proverb

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

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach