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

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King Jr

 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

 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

 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

 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

 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

 “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

 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”

 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

 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.

 Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson

 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

 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💕💕

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

““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

 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

 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

 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

 The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.--Paul Valery 

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

“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

 At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.--Arundhati Roy (The Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire) 

Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.--Joyce Brothers 

Believe in what you feel inside,
 Give your dreams the wings to fly.
 You have everything you need,
 if you just believe.--Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri ("Believe")

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.--Paul Valery 

 All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.--Brian Tracy 

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.--William Faulkner 

Ask yourself, "How long am I going to work to make my dreams come true?" I suggest you answer, "As long as it takes.--Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn's Weekly E-zine May 27, 2003) 

 H. O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.” —

“Make each day your masterpiece.” ―John Wooden

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” ―Confucius

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ―Oprah Winfrey

 Don’t tell everyone your plans, instead show them your results.” ―Unknown

“I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.” ―Louise Hay

“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” ―Maya Angelou

“Be so good they can’t ignore you.” ―Steve Martin

 A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.” ―Sonia Sotomayer

The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ―Abraham Lincoln

“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard, then succeed on purpose.” ―G.K. Nielson

“Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” ―Sam Levenson

“You can’t have a million dollar dream on a minimum wage work ethic.” ―Unknown

 Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.” ―Unknown

“Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” ―Anne Frank

“Don’t quit yet, the worst moments are usually followed by the most beautiful silver linings. You have to stay strong, remember to keep your head up and remain hopeful.” ―Unknown

 If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” ―Kurt Cobain

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” ―Roy T. Bennett

“Work hard in silence, let your success be the noise.” ―Frank Ocean

Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried but you’ve actually been planted.” ―Christine Caine

“Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits.” ―Unknown

 Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.” ―Theodore Roosevelt

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

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ―George Lorimer

 It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth

“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘How far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” —Leah Busque

“If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far that you can’t hear them anymore.” —Michele Ruiz

 Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.” —Mary Kay Ash

“Only the paranoid survive.” —Andy Grove

 All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” —Walt Disney

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” —Mark Twain

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 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

 Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.” ―Yuri Kochiyama

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

“Never regret anything that made you smile.” ―Mark Twain

“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt