Be what you are. This is the first step towards becoming better than you are.--J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare (Guesses at Truth: Second Series) 

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.--Dr. Suess 

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe, shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.--John Jakes 

Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.--Henry David Thoreau

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.--Jerry Gillies 

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.--Gertrude Stein 

Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.--Mignon McLaughlin (The Neurotic's Notebook) 

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts) 

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.--Mary Anne Radmacher 

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.--David Ben-Gurion 

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened.--Billy Graham 

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.--Eddie Rickenbacker 

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values.--Rollo May (The Courage to Create) 

Courage is not simply another virtue, it is the true form each and every virtue takes when put into practice.--Michael Rawls (from Friday's Inspiration: The Foundation of Integrity - 6/1/2001) 

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.--Ambrose Redmoon 

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.--Alice M. Swaim

Dream big dreams, then put on your overalls and go out and make the dreams come true.--Fred Van Amburgh 

The dream is not the destination but the journey.--Diane Sawyer 

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.--Toni Cade Bambara 

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. A goal is what specifically you intend to make happen. Dreams and goals should be just out of your present reach but not out of sight. Dreams and goals are coming attractions in your life.--Joseph Campbell 

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 

Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.--Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.--Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.--Anais Nin 

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.--John Lennon 

Dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men,

 All of us are, to some extent, victims of what we are. We are not limited by our imaginations, but by our ability to do what we imagine. We are not too often limited by our abilities as much as by circumstances. And we are not as often limited by our circumstances as much as by the lack of the will to respond.--Dee Bowman (That's Life!) 

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.--Norman Vincent Peale 

Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.--Lou Dorfsman 

Discipline is the refining fire by which talent becomes ability.--Roy L. Smith 

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.--John Wooden 

Every man is born with the ability to do something well. This is what the Lord intended him to do. Using that ability - what life is all about.--Gracie Allen 

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.--Hardy D. Jackson 

Accept everything about yourself--I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end--no apologies, no regrets.--Clark Moustakas 

Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment--the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.--Jorge Luis Borges 

 Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.--John Henry Newman 

Ability is of little account without opportunity.--Napoleon Bonaparte 

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.--Lou Holtz 

Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.–-John Wooden 

Ability without honor is useless.--Marcus Tullius Cicero 

 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” —Maya Angelou

“Do, or do not. There is no try.” —Yoda

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.” —C.S. Lewis

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” —Walter Winchell

“True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.” —David Tyson

“Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.” —Thomas J. Watson

“A friend is someone who understands your past, believes in your future, and accepts you just the way you are.” —Unknown

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.” —Oscar Wilde

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.” —Plutarch

“The real test of friendship is can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” —Eugene Kennedy

“A loyal friend laughs at your jokes when they’re not so good, and sympathizes with your problems when they’re not so bad.” —Arnold H. Glasgow

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.” —Muhammad Ali

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” —Marcel Proust

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.” —Charles Lamb

“If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” —Zig Ziglar

“Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” —Woodrow Wilson

“The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.” —Elisabeth Foley

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.” —Oprah Winfrey

“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.” —Anais Nin

“A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.” —Donna Roberts

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” —Maxwell Maltz

A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.” – Brad Henry

“You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” – Michelle Obama

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.” – Winston Churchill

“Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.” – Jonas Salk

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.” – Laini Taylor

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” – Albert Einstein

“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.” – Nelson Mandela

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering ‘it will be happier’…” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

”In fact, hope is best gained after defeat and failure, because then inner strength and toughness is produced.” –  Fritz Knapp

”A positive statement propels hope toward a better future, it builds up your faith and that of others, and it promotes change.” – Jan Dargatz

 

 You are enough just as you are.” —Meghan Markle

“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.” —Michael Altshuler

“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” —Gloria Steinem

“If you can dream it, you can achieve it.” —Zig Ziglar

“The power of imagination makes us infinite.” —John Muir

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who ind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.” —Dr. Suess

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” —Helen Keller

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” —Mark Twain

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

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

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” —Maya Angelou

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” —Oscar Wilde

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.” —Malcolm X

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” —John Lennon

“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” —Mother Teresa

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” —Abraham Lincoln

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” —Wayne Gretzky

“You only pass through this life once, you don’t come back for an encore.” —Elvis Presley

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” —Nelson Mandela

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

“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” —Confucius

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” —Benjamin Franklin

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” —Abraham Lincoln

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” —Robert Frost

 The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” —Kobe Bryant

“Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” —Helen Keller

“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.” —Oprah Winfrey

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” —John Wooden

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” —Lyndon B. Johnson

“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” —Martin Luther King Jr.

“When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” —Carol Burnett

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis

“Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.” —Maya Angelou

“Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” —Deep Roy

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”  —E. E. Cummings

“It isn’t where you came from. It’s where you’re going that counts.”  —Ella Fitzgerald

“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.” —Hafez

“Some people look for a beautiful place. Others make a place beautiful.” —Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” —John Barrymore

“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” —Mandy Hale

 It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” —Friedrich Nietzsche

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” —Thomas A. Edison

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.” —Wayne Dyer

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.” —Anthony Robbins

“The greater damage for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it it too low and we reach it.” —Michelangelo

“Do not go where the path may lead , go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. —Winston Churchill

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” —Muhammad Ali

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” —Michael Jordan

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.” —Mark Twain

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” —Henry Ford

“Live each day as if your life had just begun.” —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” —Lao Tzu

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” —Shonda Rhimes

“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.” —Helen Keller

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive.”  —Maya Angelou

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at.” —Jesse Owens

 Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Happiness is a state of activity.”– Aristotle

He who is brave is free. Seneca

You can totally do this.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough. Helen Keller

The fastest road to meaning and success: choose one thing and go all in. Maxime Lagacé

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill

Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Samuel Beckett

Impossible is for the unwilling. John Keats

 No pressure, no diamonds. Thomas Carlyle

Don’t tell people your plans. Show them your results.

Prove them wrong.

Good things happen to those who hustle. Anaïs Nin

Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. Augustine of Hippo

No guts, no story. Chris Brady

Take the risk or lose the chance.

Screw it, let’s do it. Richard Branson

Boldness be my friend. William Shakespeare

Keep going. Be all in. Bryan Hutchinson

Dream big. Pray bigger.

If you want it, work for it.

Leave no stone unturned. Euripides

Stay foolish to stay sane. Maxime Lagacé

And so the adventure begins.

You can if you think you can. George Reeves

Whatever you are, be a good one. Abraham Lincoln

Broken crayons still color.

Grow through what you go through.

Do it with passion or not at all.

Once you choose hope, anything’s possible. Christopher Reeve

If it matters to you, you’ll find a way. Charlie Gilkey

You have to be odd to be number one. Dr. Seuss

 Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”Carl Bard

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”Sarah Dessen

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”Flavia Weedn

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.” Helen Keller

“When you’re feeling your worst, that’s when you get to know yourself the best.”Leslie Grossman

In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”Albert Einstein

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”Chinese Proverb

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.”Eleanor Roosevelt

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”Michael Jordan

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”Samuel Beckett

“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength. Arnold Schwarzenegger

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”Christopher Reeve

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”’Hermann Hesse

“Remember that failure is an event, not a person.” Zig Ziglar

At any given moment you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.”Christine Mason Miller