If an opportunity does not knock, build a door.” Melton Berle

We all are special we just need to find our specialty.

You are never too old to set another goal or dream another dream.

“Who works achieves and who sows reaps.” Arabian proverb

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

What you already have is priceless.

In order to succeed, you must first believe that you can.

Well begun is half done.

With will, one can achieve anything.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Everything is difficult before it is easy.

“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.” Napoleon Hill

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.” Mark Twain

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” Walt Disney

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr.

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.--Anne Lamott (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life)

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine

Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption)

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville

Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source)

Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill