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DARE TO SOAR!
Whatever your goal, whatever your dream,
go after it with everything you have in your heart!
Jace Carlton
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare
that they are difficult.
Roman Dramatist, Stoic Philosopher and Politician
4 B.C. - 65 A.D.
First you jump off the cliff
and you build wings on the way down.
American Author
Dare to dream, dare to try, dare to fail.
In doing so, you will succeed.
Anonymous
To do anything truly worth doing,
I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger,
but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Og Mandino
Best-Selling Inspirational Author and Speaker, Magazine Editor
1923 - 1996
Live boldly.
Take risks.
Make somebody say
"What the heck was THAT all about?!"
Anonymous
Nobody can make you feel inferior
without your permission.
Eleanor Roosevelt
1884-1962
Former First Lady (1933-1945)
Author, Speaker and Humanitarian
Contributed
by
Vicki Sample
Fellow Star Traveler
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great ones make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
American Author and Humorist
Contributed
by
Farida Iskanderova
Fellow Star Traveler
Hold out your hands.
Move, get ready, give thanks.
Imagine and let go.
Act and have faith.
Persist.
Do what you can, when you can, all you can.
Because never again,
not in a million years, not over 10,000 lifetimes,
will you ever again be as close as you are today.
Maria Lado
(c) Sierra Productions
If there was ever a time to dare,
to make a difference,
to embark on something new,
it is now.
Not for any grand cause, necessarily ...
but for something that tugs at your heart,
something that's your inspiration,
something that's your dream.
Anonymous
Someday I shall try my wings
and wheel and soar
through uncharted seas of air!
Eileen Lynch
Contributed
by
Nancy Clays
When once you have tasted flight,
you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward,
for there you have been,
and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo da Vinci
The world would have you agree
with its dismal dream of limitations.
But the light would have you soar
like the eagle of your sacred visions.
Alan Cohen
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better
than your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
Contributed
by
Heather Holte
You would not have thought of it
if it wasn't meant for your attainment.
Jace Carlton
Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss it,
you will land among the stars!
Les Brown
Contributed
by
Phyllis Adams
Make your plans as fantastic as you like,
because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre.
You will wonder why you did not make them 50 times as great.
Henry Curtis
You're setting your sights too low.
Broaden the scope of your horizons.
Extend the depth of your vision.
See more in you than you think there is to be seen.
Neale Donald Walsch
There is a thought in your mind right now.
The longer you hold on to it,
the more you dwell upon it,
the more life you give to that thought.
Give it enough life, and it will become real.
So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.
Ralph Marston
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
The human spirit will overcome any obstacles
in the way of a dream.
Anonymous
Far better it is to dare mighty things,
to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure,
than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much
because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is,
and then rise above it.
Anonymous
DECISIONS
Your life changes the moment you make
a new, congruent, and committed decision.
Anthony Robbins
A real decision is measured
by the fact that you've taken a new action.
If there's no action,
you haven't truly decided.
Anthony Robbins
You must know that in any moment
a decision you make can change the course of your life forever:
the very next person you stand behind in line,
or sit next to on an airplane,
the very next phone call you make or receive,
the very next movie you see
or book you read or page you turn
could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open,
and all the things that you've been waiting for
to fall into place.
Anthony Robbins
DEDICATION
After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty,
after the headlines have been written
and after you are back in the quiet of your room
and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser
and all the pomp and fanfare has faded,
the enduring things that are left are:
the dedication to excellence,
the dedication to victory,
and the dedication to doing with our lives the very best we can
to make the world a better place in which to live.
Vince Lombardi
DESIRE
There is only one key to knowledge
and that is desire.
Amelie Nothomb
It doesn't matter how much you want.
What really matters is how much you want it.
Ralph Marston
Everything you want
is just outside your comfort zone.
Robert Allen
The desire to reach the stars is ambitious.
The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Maya Angelou
Where there is passion and desire,
there will always be a new frontier.
Anonymous
DESTINY
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know;
the only ones among you who will be really happy
are those who have sought and found how to serve.
German/French Theologian, Musician, Philosopher and Physician
1875 - 1965
Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - 1952
Our destiny is shaped by our thoughts and our actions.
We cannot direct the wind
but we can adjust our sails.
Anonymous
First, recognize that you are not a sheep
who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass
or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly,
bleating and whining, all of their days.
Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity
so that you will be able to control your own destiny.
Remember that what others think and say and do
need never influence what you think and say and do.
Og Mandino
We can't run from who we are;
our destiny chooses us.
Martin Landau to Matt Damon
in
"Rounders"
Look for the dream that keeps coming back.
It is your destiny.
Contributed
by
Anu Ram
Discover your destiny and pursue it with passion
and your days will be filled with a sure sense of purpose.
You'll know why you're here on this earth at this time and place.
Jace Carlton
There's a destiny in this life that is ours and only ours,
but discovering it can't be done on our own.
We must seek His power, knowledge and inspiration,
then give thanks for helping us to discover it,
and finally use our faith and courage to achieve
our true destiny.
Jace Carlton
What we receive by reaching our destiny
is not nearly as important
as what we become by stretching towards it.
Anonymous
Destiny is no matter of chance;
it is a matter of choice.
It is not a thing to be waited for;
it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
Man is asked to make of himself
what he is supposed to become
to fulfill his destiny.
Paul Tillich
Watch your habits,
for they will become your character.
Develop your character,
for it becomes your destiny.
Anonymous
The difference between your destiny and your doom
is the direction you are facing
when you are dragged into it.
Anonymous
Contributed
by
Dan Brown
DETERMINATION
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few
is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance
under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.
American Writer and Humorist
1835 - 1910
All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
All your life they will say you're not good enough
or strong enough or talented enough;
they will say you're the wrong height or the wrong weight
or the wrong type to play this or be this or achieve this.
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO,
a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless.
All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
AND YOU WILL TELL THEM YES!
Nike Ad
Failure will never overtake me
if my determination to succeed is strong enough.
Best Selling inspirational Author and Keynote Speaker
1923 - 1996
A person with a determined heart
frightens problems away.
Anonymous
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,
that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve
of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Contributed
by
Catherine Ladensack
The difference between the impossible and possible
lies in a person's determination.
Tommy Lasorda
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
I believe every person has a heart,
and if you can reach it,
you can make a difference.
Anonymous
It's easy to make a buck.
It's a lot tougher
to make a difference.
Tom Brokaw
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE
We look at some people
as if they were special, gifted, divine.
Nobody is gifted and special and divine.
No more than you are, no more than I am.
The only difference,
the very only one,
is that they have begun to understand what they really are
and have begun to practice it.
Richard Bach
DISCOVER
Discover how much your heart can hold.
Give and give and give
until you believe you've given away everything you have
and then take another look in your heart
and you'll discover
it's still overflowing.
Jace Carlton
DISCOVERY
You have to leave the city of your comfort
and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
What you'll discover will be wonderful.
What you'll discover will be yourself.
Alan Alda
Contributed
by
Rosemarie Huysman
Help someone discover something good about themselves
and they will never lose sight
of the good in you.
Anonymous
Resolve to succeed.
The greatest discovery one can make
is that nothing is impossible.
Anonymous
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach,
writing bad blank verse
and searching endlessly for someone wonderful
who would step out of the darkness and change my life.
It never crossed my mind that that person
could be me.
Anna Quindlen
The day will come when,
after harnessing space, the winds,
the tides and gravitation,
we shall harness for God the energies of love.
And on that day,
for the second time in the history of the world,
we shall have discovered fire.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Contributed
by
Anders Rasmussen
DIVERSITY
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness.
Just because they're not on your road
doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
American Best-Selling Author
DIVINE GUIDANCE
I believe I am always divinely guided.
I believe I will always take the right road.
I believe God will always make a way where there is no way.
American Naval Officer and Commander of the USS Nautilus,
the first submarine to successfully cross under the polar ice cap of the North Pole
1921 - 2007
DO IT FOR LOVE
In music you just can't escape when something is beautiful.
When you are doing something you love,
sleep can wait.
Ray Charles
American Vocalist, Musician, Songwriter and Arranger
1930 - 2004
JUST DO IT!
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
Contributed
by
Ron Atchison
creator of
www.InspirationPeak.com
Ask no one for permission
to perform that which is within you to do.
Albert Lewis Pelton
DO IT NOW!
Whatever your dream is ...
this is the time,
this is the place, and
you are the one.
What are you waiting for?
Jace Carlton
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives,
that we are dying.
Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day.
Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!
There are only so many tomorrows.
To be always intending to make a new and better life
but never to find time to set about it is as
to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next
until you're dead.
Og Mandino
Procrastination is opportunity's natural assassin.
Victor Kiam
If there was ever a time to dare,
to make a difference,
to embark on something new,
it is now.
Not for any grand cause, necessarily ...
but for something that tugs at your heart,
something that's your inspiration,
something that's your dream.
Anonymous
If you only had one hour to live ...
Who would you call?
What would you say?
Why are you waiting?
Nick Alvarez
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
DON'T GIVE UP!
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated -
he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
Darrell Royal
Many of life's failures
are a result of people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up.
are a result of people who did not realize how close they were to success
when they gave up.
Contributed
by
Tony Rita
DREAMERS
Yes, I am a dreamer.
For a dreamer is one who can find his way by midnight,
and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Oscar Wilde
DREAMS
Love never fails, character never quits,
and with patience and perseverance
dreams do come true.
National Basketball Association Hall of Famer
1947 - 1988
Dream no small dreams.
They have no power to stir the souls of men.
Victor Hugo
French Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Essayist, Visual Artists, Statesman,
and Human Rights Campaigner
Best Known for Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
1802 - 1885
Resolve to succeed!
The greatest discovery one can make
is that nothing is impossible.
Anonymous
Reminding one another of the dream
that each of us aspires to
may be enough to set each other free.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
French Writer and Aviator
1900-1944
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
Henry David Thoreau
How do you go from where you are to where you want to be?
I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life.
You have to have a dream, a goal
and you have to be willing to work for it.
Jim Valvano
Perhaps the most exciting realization in the world
is finally understanding that living the life of your dreams
is entirely up to you.
It's also about the scariest.
Maria Lado
(c) Sierra Productions
Aren't dreams awesome?!
Setting goals just isn't enough.
They don't have the PASSION that drives our hearts and souls
to do something really SPECIAL!
Dreams seem to lift us closer to God,
and there ... with Him helping us ...
we can accomplish ANYTHING!
Jace Carlton
Your dreams contain the power to transform
mediocrity into magnificence.
Dawn Stankowski
When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep,
that dream is an illusion.
But when we dream together,
sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open,
then that dream becomes reality!
Anonymous
Be bold with your dreams.
Nurture the dreams that inspire you to go beyond your limits.
Anonymous
Don't be pushed by your problems.
Be led by your dreams.
Anonymous
When your past tries to dominate your thoughts,
let your dreams ignite your day!
Anonymous
The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
You must go after your wish.
As soon as you start to pursue a dream,
your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher
Cherish your visions and your dreams
as they are the children of your soul,
the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill
Contributed
by
James Odle, Jr.
One of the only guarantees life offers is that
if we don't pursue our dreams,
they won't have any chance of coming true.
Jason Blume
from
"Inside Songwriting"
Getting To The Heart of Creativity
Billboard Books
Dream lofty dreams,
and as you dream, so you shall become.
Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be;
your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.
James Lane Allen
Follow your dream as long as you live,
do not lessen the time of following desire,
for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Plato
No dreamer is ever too small;
no dream is ever too big.
Anonymous
Nurture the dreams that inspire you
to go beyond your limits.
Anonymous
Follow the trail to your dreams,
not the path of others' expectations.
Anonymous
There is nothing like a dream
to create the future.
Victor Hugo
DYSFUNCTION
If you ever start feeling like you have the
goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world,
all you have to do is go to a state fair.
Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going,
"Ya know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty."
Jeff Foxworthy
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