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Favorite quotes

Below is a list of some of my favorite quotes.

• "Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball."
  Billie Jean King
  
  
• "Life is what happens to you when you are making other plans."
  Unknown
  
  
• "When you are through changing...You're through."
  Unknown
  
  
• "Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals."
  Unknown
  
  
• "To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will."
  Unknown
  
  
• "Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars."
  Unknown
  
  
• "Life is like a rollercoaster - it has ups and downs. The fun of it is in the ride."
  Unknown
  
  
• "Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small - we haven't time - and to see takes time like to have a friend takes time."
  Georgia O'Keeffe
  
  
• "If you want a place in the sun, you must leave the shade of the family tree."
  Osage Saying
  
  
• "Only dead fish swim with the stream."
  Unknown
  
  
• "In the valleys you look for the mountains. In the mountains you've searched for the rivers. There is no where to go. You are where you belong. You can live the life you dreamed."
  Judy Collins
  
  
• "Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprise? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
  Henry David Thoreau
  
  
• "Life: It's a short trip. Make it fun."
  Unknown
  
  
• "The thing to try when all else fails...is again."
  Unknown
  
  
• "Progress is impossible without change."
  George Bernard Shaw
  
  
• "Success is a journey, not a destination."
  Ben Sweetland
  
  
• "It's always the darkest before dawn."
  Unknown
  
  
• "We have access to so much, we may have access to nothing."
  Aaron Marcus
  
  
• "There's no place like home."
  DorthyThe Wizard of Oz
  
  
• "Wherever you go, go with all your heart."
  Confucius
  
  
• "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
  John Ruskin
  
  
• "Hold your dream. Don't ever let it go. Be yourself. And let the world take notice."
  From a song heard at Center for Spiritual Learning, San Jose
  
  
• "If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
  Thomas Edison
  
  
• "Action is the foundational key to all success."
  Pablo Picasso
  
  
• "To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
  Joseph Chilton Pearce
  
  
• "A creative life is grounded on many, many small steps and very, very few large leaps."
  Julia Cameron, "The Artist's Way"
  
  
• "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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