A COLLECTION OF INSPIRING QUOTES.

ALFRED ALDER
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared, but only men of character are trusted. 

ANTHONY DOERR
Time is a slippery things: lose hold of it once, and its strings might sail out of your hands forever.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

AZAR NAFISI
You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.

CHERIE CARTER-SCOTT
Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people vizualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible.

ED CATMULL
You'll never stumble upon the unexpected if you stick only to the familiar. 

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. 

JOHN BUCHAN
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

DANIEL CARNEGIE
Inaction breads fear and doubt. Action breads confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

PAULO COELHO
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.   

PAULO COELHO
The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

RANDY PAUSCH
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

RATATOUILLE (2007)
If you focus on what you've left behind, you will never be able to see what lies ahead.

STEVE JOBS
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

SØREN KIERKEGAARD
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. 

THE IMITATION GAME (2014)
Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of, who do the things that no one can imagine

VIKTOR FRANKL
Man is not fully conditioned or determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining. Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become in the next moment.