Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau
Inspiration and genius--one and the same.
Victor Hugo
To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned."
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.
Christian Nestell Bovee
If you would create something,
you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
Horace Bushnell
In any project the important factor is your belief. Without belief, there can be no successful outcome.
William James
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Brontë
Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.
W. C. Doane
Nae inspiration here sae tak yir thoughts frae yir journey here and hame again
Lowland Haggi