Inspirational thoughts

"The world you desire can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours!"

--Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the OTHER people!" (Professor Randy Pausch)

"When life kicks you, let it kick you forward" (Kay Yow).

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" (Gandhi)

"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character." (Horace Greeley)

"We never know how high we are

Till we are asked to rise

And then if we are true to plan

Our statures touch the skies?"

- Emily Dickinson -

"Our doubts are traitors

and make us lose the good we oft might win

By fearing to attempt."

- William Shakespeare -

"For when the One Great Scorer comes

To write against your name,

He marks -- not that you won or lost,

but how you played the game."

- Grantland Rice -

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands in moments of challenge and controversy".  (Martin Luther King).

"The most intelligent people disguise the fact that they are intelligent. Wise men do not wear nametags. The more people talk about their own skills, the more desperate they are—their work should speak for itself."

~M (Death Note)

"Truth is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution." 

~ Albus Dumbledore

"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain."

~ Bene Gesserit