"You can't base your life on other people's expectations."

Stevie Wonder
Grammy Award Winning Singer/Songwriter

"I love strange choices. I'm always interested in people who depart from what is expected of them and go into new territory."

Cate Blanchett
Actress

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving, if your sights are set far above the merely secure and mediocre."

David Sarnoff
1891-1971, Entrepreneur

"The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better."

Barbara Pletcher
Author

"To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open."

Lillian Smith
1897-1966, Writer

"Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort."

Humphry Davy
1778-1829, Chemist

"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I shall have the belief that I can do it. I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it, even if I may not have it at the beginning."

Mahatma Gandhi
1869-1948, Indian Nationalist Leader