Here is a selection of quotes I have found on the net or read in various places over time. They have all moved me in some way and/or made me think when I have read them. I hope they do likewise for you...

The greater the obstacle, the more the glory in overcoming it.
-Moliere

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
-Kurt Lewin

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
-Charles A. Beard

Character is doing what is right when no one is looking.
-J.C. Watts

[about the past]
...the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
-Carl Jung

Listen to your heart.
If it tells you to love,
take the chance, and love.

The marvellous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
-Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, or touched, but are felt in the heart.
-Helen Keller

The journey is the reward.
-Tao Saying

Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-Plato

Listen with your heart, you will understand.
-Pocahontas

Excellence: Some succeed because they are destined to. Others succeed because they are determined to.

Courage: In the end the only people who fail are those who do not try.

Continue to be yourself because in the end that's what people will remember about you.

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
-William Osler

If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving.

Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

What you believe now (false or fact) about yourself is how you'll act.
-Michael Star

If you don't like the direction the river is flowing, don't jump in.

Hoping and wishing are excuses for not doing.

Life is a mirror; it reflects back whatever image we present to it.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The past does not equal the future.

To fully appreciate the good times in life, we need to experience the bad times.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
-Francois Voltaire

Imagination is more important than intelligence.
- Albert Einstein

Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.
-Matthew Arnold

There is only one time when it is essential to awaken. That time is now.
-Buddha

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
-William James

"Come to the edge, he said,
They said: We are afraid
Come to the edge, he said
They came, he pushed them......and they flew."
-Guillaume Apollinaire

...and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in direct proportion to one’s courage.
-Anais Nin

Competition doesn't create character, it exposes it.

Home is the place you grow up wanting to leave, and grow up wanting to get back to.
-John Ed Pearce

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
-Mother Teresa

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?
-Jack Kornfield

We are all faced with magnificent opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
-Charles R. Swindell

To fear love is to fear life,
and those who fear life are
already three parts dead.
-Bertrand Russell

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Minds are like parachutes - they work best when open.

A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.
-Antoine de Saint Exupery

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Way is long ~ let us go together.
The Way is difficult ~ let us help each other.
The way is joyful ~ let us share it.
The way is ours alone ~ let us go in love.
The way grows before us ~ let us begin.
-Zen Invocation

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts we make the world.
-Buddha

They can because they think they can.
-Virgil

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We are judged by each and every small behaviour, and not so much by the thousands of words we utter before or after our actions.

Be very careful what you set your heart upon, for you will surely have it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Your vision will become clear
only when you look into your heart...
Who looks outside, dreams...
Who looks inside, awakens.
-Carl Jung

Each day of human life
contains joy and anger,
pain and pleasure,
darkness and light,
growth and decay.
Each movement
is etched with nature’s grand design~
do not try to deny or oppose the cosmic order of things.
-Morehei Ueshiba ~ O’ Sensei

There is a saying in the Buddhist tradition:
You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself,
and you will not find that person anywhere.
-Sharon Salzberg

The only journey is the one within.
-Rainer Maria Rilke

The Serenity Prayer:
God, grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
and Wisdom to know the difference.
-Reinhold Niebuhr

"How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."
-Trina Paulus

The thing always happens that you really believe in
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
And I think nothing will happen
until you thoroughly and deeply believe in it.
-Frank Lloyd Wright

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward.
Dag Hammerskjöld

A journey of a thousand miles
Begins with a single step.
Lao Tzu

The value of a personal relationship to things is that it creates intimacy
and intimacy creates understanding
and understanding creates love.
-Anais Nin

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:
If there is any reaction, both are transformed.
-C.G. Jung

A human life is like a single letter in the alphabet.
It can be meaningless, or it can be part of a great meaning.
Quoted by the Jewish Theological Seminary of America

You can't appreciate true love, until you've been burned.

The mind is its own place, and in itself,
can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
-John Milton

He who knows others is wise;
He who knows himself is enlightened.
-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart!
What jailer is as inexorable as one's self!
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is not a problem to be solved,
But a reality to be experienced.
-Soren Kierkegaard

The past is just that, the past.
Learn from it and move onwards.

Live life as if you are going to die tomorrow.

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
-Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

The commitment begins, inside your head.

Never get so busy making a living,
that you forget to make a life.

You give little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
-Kahlil Gibran