“You can resist an invading army; you cannot resist an idea whose time has come.”

~Victor Hugo

"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccesful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education is not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

~Calvin Coolidge

"You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you."

~Ray LaMontagne

"Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement."

~Florence Scovel Shinn

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

~Jack Ma

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

~Gail Sheehy

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

~Margaret Mead

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

~Voltaire