Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Great hopes make great men.

Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.

If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

If I can inspire someone to go in a positive way and pursue a dream, it can only be good.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

Ever since I was 7 years old, I wanted to be great.

It's never too late to be great.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

We should never, never be afraid or ashamed about dreams. The dreams won’t all come true; we won’t always make it; but where there is no vision a people perish. Where people have no dreams and no hopes and aspirations, life becomes dull and a meaningless wilderness.

Oh, it's delightful to have ambitions. I'm so glad I have such a lot. And there never seems to be any end to them-- that's the best of it. Just as soon as you attain to one ambition you see another one glittering higher up still. It does make life so interesting.

Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.

Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.

If you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away, and always believe that the impossible is possible.

In December 1989, my mother died very suddenly, and that sparked a re-evaluation of what I was doing, and I realized I was mediocre at everything. I was a mediocre IBM employee, I was a mediocre entrepreneur, I was a mediocre artist. I decided that, although my mom wouldn't be around to see it, I wanted to be great at something.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.

I just want to be great. I want to stand out, be a great leader for this defense, and I'm just trying to leave it all out on the field.

Dreams can come true.

If you're working, and you're not trying to be great, give up.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.