Don't accept expectations

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan

Courage

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

Muhammad Ali

Kindness

Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see

Mark Twain

Don't be afraid

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Lloyd George

The best way to predict the future

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Abraham Lincoln

Happiness never decreases

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Do it any way you have to

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.

Steve Chandler

You can do more

There is no man living that cannot do more than he thinks he can.

Henry Ford

Learn, Live, Hope

Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.

Albert Einstein

Forget Past Mistakes

Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it.

William Durant

The only thing between you and your goals

The only thing standing between you and your goals is the bullshit you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.

Felix Baumgartner 

Take It

Nothing is harder than the first step. Take it today.

DO IT

Happiness is a Risk

Happiness is a risk, if you're not a little scared, then you're not doing it right.

Sarah Addison Allen

Smile Back

Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back.

The Gladiator

Sail

To reach a port, we must sail. Sail - not lie at anchor. Sail - not drift.

Franklin D Roosevelt

Two ways to live your life

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Albert Einstein

Desire of the Spirit

Desire of the spirit is greater than the limits of the body and the mind.

Be Kind

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible

Dalai Lama

Strength, Courage and Confidence

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Not an act, but a habit

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

Aristotle

A Thousand Forests

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Proverb

Dust or Magic

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Bill Bernabach

Great Minds

Great minds have great purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. - Washington Irving

Remake yourself

Aristotle

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. 

We are the cosmos made conscious

Brian Cox

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself

Success is...

Abraham Lincoln

Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm