December 22, 2009

those who want to sing...

i collect quotes for inspiration. i hope some of these inspire you. i've highlighted my favorites. for more of my quotes, you can go to my website: Michelle's Collected Quotes.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. ~ Erma Bombeck

There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, “Yes, I’ve got dreams, of course I’ve got dreams.” Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they’re still there. ~ Erma Bombeck

The dream you don’t fight for will haunt you for the rest of your life. ~ from the movie Robots

Dreams are necessary to life ~ Anais Nin

Some men see things as they are and say, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and say, "Why not?" ~ George Bernard Shaw

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. ~ Goethe

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. ~ Marcel Proust

No person has the right to rain on your dreams. ~Marian Wright Edelman

One must desire something to be alive. ~ Margaret Deland

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible. ~ T.E. Lawrence

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who say it cannot be done should get out of the way of those who are doing it. ~ Anonymous

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. ~ Teddy Roosevelt

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path
and leave a trail. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you don't need God to pull off what you are planning, you are not dreaming big enough. ~ Michael Hyatt

Those who want to sing will always find a song. ~ Norwegian Proverb

1 comment:

BK said...

Good ones. Especially like the Michael Hyatt quote. Funny how just a one line quote can inspire us. That's why I'm glad people are out there busy thinking - so we can inspire one another. 8-)