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Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
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Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If a man loses pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
We ourselves feel that what we are doing
is just a drop in the ocean.
But the ocean would be less
because of that missing drop.
- Mother Teresa
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you
based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals
while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach
your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One man with courage makes a majority.
- old saying probably repeated by Andrew Jackson
(falsely attributed to Jefferson)
Your work is to discover your world
and then with all your heart give yourself to it.
- The Buddha
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
If one advances confidently
in the direction of his dreams,
and endeavors to live
the life which he has imagined,
he will meet with success
unexpected in common hours.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can never really live anyone else's life,
not even your child's.
The influence you exert is through your own life,
and what you've become yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man does not know what port he is steering for,
no wind is favorable to him.
- Seneca
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa
A hero is someone who has given his life to
something bigger than himself
or something other than himself.
- Joseph Campbell
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely.
It is absolutely touch and go.
Each one of us could make the difference.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
I strive toward my vision,
while accepting gratefully whatever life offers me.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
What you are is God's gift to you:
what you become is your gift to god.
- Anthony Dalla Villa
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for,
he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
With realization of one's own potential and
self-confidence in one's ability,
one can build a better world.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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