Fulfilling Your Dreams

1. Hold fast to dreams
   For if dreams die
   Life is a broken-winged bird
   That cannot fly.
   Hold fast to dreams
   For when dreams go
   Life is a barren field
   Frozen with snow.  Langston Hughes
2. You’re in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that part of you that knows/and has always known/that we are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with an imminent arrival.  Anthony Robbins
3. Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be.  Karen Raven
4. Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.  Lao Tzu
5. Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life’s blueprint. Smile!  Og Mandino
6. A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.  Denis Waitley
7. Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.  Leon Joseph Cardinal Suenens
8. You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.  Mary Manin Morrissey
9. All men and women are born, live, suffer, and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, whether they be dreams about worldly or unworldly things, and what we do to make them come about… We do not choose to be born. We do not choose our parents. We do not choose our historical epoch, the country of our birth, or the immediate circumstances of our upbringing. We do not, most of us, choose to die; nor do we choose the time and conditions of our death. But within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.  Joseph Epstein
10. Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.  Harriet Tubman
11. Those who cherish a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in their hearts, will one day realize it.   James Allen
12. Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.  Dale E. Turner
13. If the dream is big enough the facts don’t matter.  Dexter Yager
14. Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.  Napoleon Hill
15. You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.  Billy Wilder

Pursuing Your Passion 

1. If you have ever felt such tremendous enthusiasm and desire for something that you would gladly spend all your waking hours working on it, that you would happily do without pay, then you have found your passion.  Sharon Cook & Graciela Sholander
2. If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.  T. Alan Armstrong
3. The biggest mistake people make in life is not making a living at doing what they most enjoy.  Malcolm S. Forbes
4. Without passion you don’t have energy, without energy you have nothing.  Donald Trump
5. A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.  William Hazlitt
6. Chase down your passion like it’s the last bus of the night.  Glade Byron Addams
7. Follow your passion, and success will follow you.  Arthur Buddhold
8. Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.  George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
9. Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.  Denis Diderot
10. So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!  Shawn Doyle
11. The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment.  Earl Nightingale
12. When work, commitment, and pleasure all become one and you reach that deep well where passion lives, nothing is impossible.  Nancy Coey
13. Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.  Martha Graham
14. Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.  W. Eugene
15. A great leader’s courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.  John Maxwell 

Following Your Bliss 

1. If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow our bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.  Wherever you are—if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.  Joseph Campbell
2. Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
3. When you choose to live your life on purpose, you will reveal the purpose of your life.  Mike Jones
4. Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.  Unknown
5. There is no reason, no excuse, no alibi, no fate, that can hinder an individual that is focused on a specific purpose.  Mike Jones
6. One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.  Helen Keller
7. Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads.  Erica Jong
8. If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.  Dale Carnegie
9. Every single life only becomes great when the individual sets upon a goal or goals which they really believe in, which they can really commit themselves to, which they can put their whole heart and soul into.  Brian Tracy
10. I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.  Vince Lombardi
11. An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man’s entire existence.  Honoré de Balzac
12. Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.  Leonard da Vinci
13. Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.  Henry Van Dyke
14. You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand.  Irene C. Kassorla