Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
