Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo

To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton

Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?
George Eliot

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Benjamin Disraeli

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir

First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.
Epictetus