If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh

Setbacks are temporary as long as you don't give up.
- Kevin Ngo

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
- Epictetus

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

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
- Les Brown

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

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

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
- Benjamin Spock

Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you or hold you up in any way.
- Eileen Caddy

My mother said to me, If you are a soldier, you will become a General. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter and I became Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary

Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep as I look can I see
Only as much as I dream can I be.
- Karen Ravn

It always seems impossible until it's done.
- Nelson Mandela

Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.
-Claude Bissell

I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.
- Indian Proverb