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When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope." Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to realize they were impossible.
-Doug Larsen

We know what we are, but we know not what we may be.
-Shakespeare

It is better to be hated for what you are that to be loved for something you are not.
-Andre Gide

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
-Carrie Fisher

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
-Delores Ibarruri

You need to get up in the morning and say, "Boy, I'm going to-in my own stupid way-save the world today."
-Carol Bellamy

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
-Erica Jong

An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
-Oscar Wilde

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.

The world has yet to see what God can do with and for and through and in a man who is fully consecrated to Him.
-Henry Varley

Winners are not passionate because they are successful. They are successful because they are passionate.

Success is not the result of spontaneous cumbustion. You must set yourself on fire.
-Fred Shero

You do not test the resources of God until you attempt the imposible.
-F.B. Meyer

When you win, nothing hurts.
-Joe Namath

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

When I hear someone say, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
-Sydney J. Harris

One of the great discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
-Henry Ford

It is kind of fun to do the impossible.
-Walt Disney

Music should strike fire from the heart of a man and bring tears to the eyes of a woman.
-Beethoven

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

Truth is not determined by a majority vote.
-Lilian Hellman

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
-Helen Keller

Wherever a dancer stands is holy ground.
-Martha Graham

Give me but one firm spot to stand on and I will move the earth.
-Archimedes

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
-William Jennings Bryan

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-Oscar Wilde

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
-Helen Keller

Always remember others may hate you but they don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
-Richard Nixon