Let no man pul you low enough to hate him.

-Martin Luther King J

Somehow we've come to believe that greatness is only for the chosen few, for the superstars. The truth is, greatness is for us all. This is not about lowering expectations; it's about raising them for every last one of us. Greatness is not in one special place, and it's not in one special person. Greatness is wherever somebody is trying to find it.

Find your greatness.

-Nike Advertisement.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide that your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours It is an amazing journey and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.
-Bob Moawad

Before you act, listen. Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try.
-Ernest Hemingway

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein

The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you figured out why.
-Mark Twain

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, it's the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow.

In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
-Robert Frost

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

-Dr. Seuss

We've all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on, that's who we really are.
-Sirius Black

There are three ways to ultimate success:

The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
-Mr. Fred Rogers

If you could only sense how important you are to the people you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with any person.
-Mr. Fred Rogers

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-Abraham Lincoln

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Remember that.
-Albus Dumbledore

It's our choices that show us who we truly are, far more than our abilities.
-Albus Dumbledore

Love me or hate me, both are in my favor. If you love me, I'll always be in your heart. If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind.
-William Shakespeare

If you want to know what a man's like, take a look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
-Sirius Black

When people hurt you over and over, think of them as sandpaper. They scratch and hurt you, but in the end, you are polished and they are all used up.

I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day, just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
-Michael Jordan

Sometimes, we must choose between what is right and what is easy.

-Albus Dumbledore

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
-Michael Phelps

Spend a little more time trying to make something of yourself and a little less trying to impress people.
-The Breakfast Club

Don't worry about those who talk behind your back. They are there for a reason.

I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized... I am somebody.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
-Albus Dumbledore

Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The strongest people are not those who show strength in front of us, but those who win battle that we know nothing about.

I've learned that opportunities are never lost. Somebody will take the ones you miss.
-Andy Rooney

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
-Robert Brault

I choose: To live by choice, not by chance. To be motivated, not manipulated. To be useful, not used. To make changes, not excuse. To excel, not compete. I choose self-esteem, not self pity. I choose to listen to my inner voice, not to the random opinion of others.

Always remember: You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think, and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.

You build a failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy or any of your time, or any of your space.
-Johnny Cash

I'll take character over reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
-A.J. Perez

To succeed in life, you must have three things: A Wishbone, A Backbone, and a Funny bone.
-Reba McEntire

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all in which case, you fail by default.
-J.K. Rowling

If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone's expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore, your excellence.
-Hope Solo

To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.

-Steve Prefontaine

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
-J.R.R. Tolkien

Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you'll be criticized anyway.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Each morning when I open my eyes, I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
-Groucho Marx

Just remember that there is someone out there that is more than happy with less than what you have.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
-J.K. Rowling

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
-Aristotle

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

-Mitch Albom

Never argue with stupid people. They will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
-Mark Twain

It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful that you have a glass and there is something in it.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

-Mother Teresa

If you look for the bad in people expecting to find, you surely will. -Abraham Lincoln

I am too positive to be doubtful, too optimistic to be fearful, and too determined to be defeated.

Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together.
-Verna M. Kelly

Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
-William Shakespeare

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
-Albert Einstein

You know you're on the right track when you become uninterested in looking back.

Patience is not an ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
-Joyce Meyer

You've got enemies? Good. That means you actually stood up for something in your life.

I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.

-Maya Angelo

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because her trust is not on the branch, but on its own wings. Always believe in yourself.

Now and then, it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
-Guillaume Apollinaire

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

-Stephen Hawking

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

-Albert Einstein

Two woods diverged in a wood, and I I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost

Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten. The past can hurt, but the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it. -The Lion King

You've only got three choices in life: Give up, give in, or give it all you've got.

Don't get sidetracked by people who are not on track.

Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.

Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose.

-C.S. Lewis

People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
-Paulo Coelho

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

-Salvador Dali

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
-Maya Angelou

Life doesn't give you the people you want. It gives you the people you need: to love you, to hate you, to make you, to break you and to make you the person you were meant to be.

Not till we are lost do we begin to find ourselves.

-Henry David Thoreau

It takes nothing to join the crowd. It takes everything to stand alone.

-Hans F. Hansen

Life is like a piano. The white keys represent happiness and the black show sadness, but, as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also create music.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.
-Wiz Khalifa

When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.

Three Simple Rules in Life:

1. If you do not go after what you want, you'll never have it. 2. If you do not ask, the answer will always be no. 3. If you do not step forward, you will always be in the same place.

Accept what you can't change, change what you can't accept.

I can't tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.
-Ed Sheeran

It's a good day to have a good day.

Forget all the reasons why it won't work and believe the one reason why it will.

So... this is the part where I'm supposed to tell you it's not scary. Well... it is... but fear is natural, fear is good it just means you're growing.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Talking about our problems is our greatest addiction. Break the habit. Talk about your joys.
-Rita Schiano

The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered, Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
-Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

The earth without art is just eh.

There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad, focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.

-Jose N. Harris

Everything will be okay in the end.

If it's not okay, it's not the end.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
-Josh Groban

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
-Lucille Ball

Be so good they can't ignore you.

-Steve Martin

Do things with passion or not at all. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Work hard. Have fun. No drama.

When I was five years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy. They told me I didn't understand the assignment. I told them they didn't understand life.
-John Lennon

At the end of the day, you can either focus on what's tearing you apart or what's keeping you together.

I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons, and maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still chose where we go from there.

I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.

When you look at a person, any person, remember that everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed them.

I really try to do my best to live my life with no regrets. Whether this is a gift or a curse, I am constantly thinking of how my actions in the present will affect my life in the future. I use this to make sure that I live a life which I can be proud of.

-Nathan Adrian

There's winning and there's losing and in life, both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.
-Magic Johnson

I hated every minute of training, but I said Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
-Muhammed Ali

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
-C.S. Lewis

Tough times don't last. Tough people do.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
-Socrates

Some days, there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

-Emory Austin

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Teresa

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. -Maya Angelou

Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

-Jack Kerouac

Life is like a camera. Just focus on what's important and capture the good times, develop from the negatives, and, if things don't work out, just take another shot.

Strive for progress, not perfection.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.
-Zig Ziglar

No matter how good or bad you think life is, wake up each day and be thankful for life. Someone, somewhere else, is fighting to survive.

Sometimes you just have to shut up, swallow your pride, and accept that you're wrong. It's not called giving up, it's called growing up.

Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for.
-Joel Osteen

Be careful not to do something permanently stupid because you are temporarily angry, stressed, scared, tired, or hungry.
-Karen Salmansohn

If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives.
-Lemony Snicket

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: Believing in yourself.
-Harry Potter

Once in a while, it really hits people that they don't have to experience life in the way they have been told to.
-Alan Knightly

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

-Joseph Chilton Pearce

Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.
-W.P. Kinnsella

Go into the world and do well, but more importantly, go into the world and do good.
-Minor Myers Jr.