""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."
- Herman Melville
Adversity
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
Change
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
- Anaïs Nin
Change
"Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Change
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."
- William James
Change
"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."
- Dolly Parton
Change