Protect your vision.
Prevail over adversity.
Persevere in the midst of turmoil.
Passionately act upon your convictions.
Purposely walk into the day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you don't know where you are going,
you might wind up someplace else.
- Yogi Berra
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Winners Dream Big Dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The purpose of human life is to serve,
and to show compassion and the will to help others.
- Albert Schweitzer
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Find a time and place of solitude.
Look into the distance, and into the future.
Visualize the tomorrow you are going to build -
and begin to build that tomorrow, today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose.
- Leonardo da Vinci
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
- Billy Sunday
Our aspirations are our possibilities.
- Robert Browning
If not us, who, if not now, when?
- Anonymous
The most pathetic person in the world
is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
- Helen Keller
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
- Robert Byrne
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Going nowhere faster will not get you somewhere.
- Alan Cohen
We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice,
forever whispering within our ear,
that thing which causes the eternal quest,
that thing which forever sings and sings.
- Ernest Holmes
Nearly everything you do is of no importance,
but it is important that you do it.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
No wind favors he who has no destined port.
- Montaigne
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
You should not confuse your career with your life.
- Dave Barry
No individual has any right to come into the world
and go out of it without leaving something behind.
- George Washington Carver
Opening my mind to Spirit, I trust my intuition to deliver
powerful visions of my inspired future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants.
The question is: What are we busy about?
- Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
- Henry David Thoreau
The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world.
To be effective it demands the sacrifice
of the bravest and the most spotless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
It is never too late to become what you might have been.
- George Eliot
The question is not whether we will be extremists,
but what kind of extremists we will be...
The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The meaning of Life is whatever we Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
People are not lazy.
They simply have impotent goals -
that is, goals that do not inspire them.
- Tony Robbins
When you dance, your purpose is not to get
to a certain place on the floor.
It's to enjoy each step along the way.
- Wayne Dyer
Where are you going? Where does your path lead?
You can never know the future, yet wandering aimlessly
is unlikely to be the source of a fulfilling life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one saves us but ourselves.
No one can and no one may.
We ourselves must walk the path.
- The Buddha
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves
and our own self-preservation,
we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
- Joseph Campbell
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know:
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Without deep reflection,
one knows from daily life
that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
- Albert Einstein
Resilience is about believing in yourself,
and trusting your own wisdom rather than
being swayed by the opinions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon.
We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
- George Washington Carver
Only put off until tomorrow
what you are willing to die having left undone.
- Pablo Picasso
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
We're so engaged in doing things
to achieve purposes of outer value
that we forget the inner value,
the rapture that is associated
with being alive, is what it is all about.
- Joseph Campbell
Be resolute in your goals,
but flexible in your tactics.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives,
everything he does becomes tainted.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
You have to realize: OK, I don't know how
to solve a political problem,
I don't know how to solve the pollution problem...
all I know is in my own life,
I need to figure out some sense of purpose,
I need to figure out how to be happy...
and I'm willing.
- Jewel
When we come into the present,
we begin to feel the life around us again,
but we also encounter whatever we have been avoiding.
We must have the courage to face whatever is present -
our pain, our desires, our grief,
our loss, our secret hopes our love -
everything that moves us most deeply.
- Jack Kornfield
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
as what you become by achieving your goals.
- Henry David Thoreau
If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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