“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won’t carry a quitter.”
Stephen King, Duma Key

“Now go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make good art.”
Neil Gaiman

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna

“Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
Leo Buscaglia

“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club.”
Jack London

“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”
Ernest Hemingway

“A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.”
Ray A. Davis

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.”
Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”
Joel Osteen

“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”
George Lucas

“Ideas come from everything”
Alfred Hitchcock

“Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Let your haters be your motivators”
Nikki Carter

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“You can’t coast uphill.”
Roger Crawford

“Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.”
Corita Kent

“It doesn’t matter how great your shoes are if you don’t accomplish anything in them.”
Martina Boone, Compulsion

“So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.”
Christopher Reeve

“I believe that what we get out of life is what we’ve set ourselves up to get, so there’s no such thing as an inconsequential decision. Our destinies are the culmination of all the choices we’ve made along the way, which is why it’s imperative to listen hard to your inner voice when it speaks up. Don’t let anyone else’s noise drown it out.”
Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man’s doing but my own.
I am the force.”
Elaine Maxwell

“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Chuck Close

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