The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Helen Keller

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Helen Keller

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Thomas A. Edison

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Epictetus

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

If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Rumi

Perhaps everything terrible is in its being something that needs our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
Walt Whitman

If you are going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill