“Measure your worth. . .

by the dedication to your path—

Not by your successes or failures. . .”

—Elizabeth Gilbert (“Big Magic”)

“Have no fear of perfection—

You’ll never reach it. . .”

—Salvador Dali

“The first step towards getting somewhere

is to decide

that you are not going to stay where you are. . .”

—Chauncey Depew

“There is a great man

who makes very many feel small. . .

But—

The real great man

is the man who makes every man feel great. . .”

—G. K. Chesterton

“Listen to yourself when you talk. . .

You might be surprised at what you hear. . .”

—Vicki Caruana

“Follow the Gleam. . .”

—Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron (“Merlin and the Gleam”)

“There’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip. . .”

—Greek Proverb

“For all sad words of tongue or pen. . .

The saddest are these:

‘It might have been. . .'”

—John Greenleaf Whittier

“We may have had a hand in shaping you. . .

But—

You are the making of you. . .”

—Aysling Smythe