All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
- Napoleon Hill
"You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing. Get interested in something! Get absolutely enthralled in something! Get out of yourself! Be somebody!
Do something. The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have."
Norman Vincent Peale
Children possess a remarkable amount of passion. They throw themselves completely, heart and soul, into everything.
~ Mary Lou Retton
"Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, but by going off the main road; by trying the untried." -- Frank Tyger
“A sage thing is timely silence, and better than any speech”
Plutarch
"A visionary is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Wilde
"Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling." -- Vincent Van Gogh
Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
- Samuel Johnson
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
Patricia Neal
Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
-- James Allen
