“I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.”
"I may not be there yet, but I am closer than I was yesterday."
- Misty Copeland
Personal Growth
"Know that you can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed."
- Misty Copeland
Personal Growth
"Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you."
- Misty Copeland
Courage
"I have learned you are never too small to make a difference."
- Misty Copeland
Courage
"“Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.”"
- Misty Copeland
Courage
"When 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."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration