1. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
2. “Hitch your wagon to a star.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. “If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn’t call it genius.” – Michelangelo
4. “I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much.” – Mother Teresa
5. “If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.” – Thomas Edison
6. “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
7. “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” – Dr. Seuss
8. “Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.” – Winston Churchill
9. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau
10. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt
11. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.” – Goethe
12. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
13. “Courage is doing what you’re afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you’re scared.” – Eddie Rickenbacker
14. “Quit now, you’ll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you’ll be halfway there.” – David Zucker
15. “There are only 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
- “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” – Bernard Meltzer
- “A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.” – Fr. Jerome Cummings
- “Remember, the greatest gift is not found in a store nor under a tree, but in the hearts of true friends.” – Cindy Lew
- “Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure.” – Jewish Saying
- “Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.” – Elbert Hubbard
- “What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.” – Aristotle
- “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” – Nigerian Proverb
- “A faithful friend is the medicine of life.” – Apocrypha
- “Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same.” – Unknown
- “Friends are like melons; shall I tell you why? To find one good you must one hundred try.” – Claude Mermet
- “Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” – Baltasar Gracian (1647)
- “Friendship needs no words…” – Dag Hammarskjold
- “Friends are the sunshine of life.” – John Hay (1871)
- “The best mirror is an old friend.” – George Herbert
- “Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
- “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams
- “Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.” – Twyla Tharp
- “The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.” – William Faulkner
- “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” – Stella Adler
- “Painting is silent poetry.” – Plutarch
- “Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet.” – Kojiro Tomita
- “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.” – Amy Lowell
- “To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist.” – Schumann
- “We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.” – Pablo Picasso
- “I don’t paint things. I only paint the difference between things.” – Henri Matisse
- “The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.” – Robert Brault
- “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” – Charles Horton Cooley
- “Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.” – Isaac Bashevis Singer
- “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.” – E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
- “Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.” – Theodore Dreiser
- “The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.” – Paul Strand
- “All art requires courage.” – Anne Tucker
- “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” – Edgar Degas
- “It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.” – Henry Moore
- “Pictures must not be too picturesque.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.” – André Gide
- “Anyone who says you can’t see a thought simply doesn’t know art.” – Wynetka Ann Reynolds
- “But that’s what being an artist is – feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy.” – The New Yorker
- “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.
- “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.
- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.
- “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.
- “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.
- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston
- “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.
- “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.
- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.
- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington
- “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington
- “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.
- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus
- “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.
- “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.
- “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston
- “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.” – George S. Patton
- “If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.” – St. Clement of Alexandra
- “We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.” – Thornton Wilder
- “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
- “Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.” – Johann Gottfried Von Herder
- “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
- “Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.” – Voltaire
- “Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.” – Benjamin Disraeli
- “You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind.” – Unknown
- “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
- “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” – William B. Sprague
- “Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Fortune favors the brave.” – Publius Terence
- “Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
- “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” – Albert Einstein
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” – Winston Churchill
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “For hope is but the dream of those that wake.” – Matthew Prior
- “Constant dripping hollows out a stone.” – Lucretius
- “Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.” – Mary Shelley