A King may move a man, a father may claim a son, but remember that even when those who move you be Kings, or men of power, your soul is in your keeping alone. When you stand before God, you cannot say, “But I was told by others to do thus.” Or that, “Virtue was not convenient at the time.” This will not suffice. Remember that.”
- King Baldwin IV in Kingdom of Heaven

"Believing in yourself can be a lot like religion. You have to believe in something that’s not there. With full faith that in reality, it is. But unlike religion, our self belief leads us to a point in life. Self belief has somewhat of an end. Religion, or belief in God, however, is really support on the journey. At least that’s how I see it.”

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
– Maya Angelou

“I soon learned that one wins awards mainly for winning awards: an example of what Bob Merton calls the Matthew Effect. It is akin also to the phenomenon known in politics as “availability,” or name recognition. Once one becomes sufficiently well known, one’s name surfaces automatically as soon as an award committee assembles.”
-Bob Merton

“There is a crack, a crack in everything.
That’s how the light gets in.”
-Leonard Cohen

And on they went.

“What is essential is invisible to the eye. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.” 

-Antoine de Saint Exupery “The Little Prince”

“Without faith, the leap will never work.”
Seth Godin

“Your remedy is within you, but you do not sense it. Your sickness is from you, but you do not perceive it. You presume you are a small entity, but within you is enfolded the entire universe. You are indeed the evident book, by whose alphabet the hidden becomes the manifest. Therefore, you have no need to look beyond yourself. What you seek is within you, if only you reflect.”
- Imam Ali

“That is the thing with giving your heart. You never wait for someone to ask. You hold it out and hope they want it.”
- Suzanna Collins ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

“Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Stand tall and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth always, even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless and do no wrong.”
-Godfrey de Ibelin “Kingdom of Heaven”

"Our authentic creative expression is so unique to us. That if you don't learn or find a way to express YOUR uniqueness that it will never be seen in the world. It will never be expressed, and it will die with you, unexpressed."
-Hayley Manson

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
-Henry David Thoreau

“We are all born from nothing. And from nothing, we become titans. TITANS. Capable of love, and destruction, and healing, and devastation. Capable of anything, if only we have the mind to conceive it.”
- DC

“If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.”
– James Cameron

To those who are told, whether out of love or doubt, ‘This cannot be done’, ‘Stop dreaming’, or ‘That’s impossible’ and still keep believing they can.”
-Bill Duke ‘My 40 Year Career On Screen and Behind The Camera’

“It is worst, right before it gets better”

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

- Harriet Tubman

“The best way to avoid envy is to deserve the success you get.” 
- Aristotle

It's okay to be scared. It's natural to doubt yourself, but if you can push through that, and do what needs to be done, you'll do just fine.