Inspiring Quotations to begin your SOP (Statement of Purpose)

It’s a reasonably good idea to begin your SOP with an inspiring quote and relate it with your vision towards life and career. Here are some highly inspiring quotes.

• Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs. –Farrah Gray

• The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. –Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined. –Henry David Thoreau

• There are no traffic jams along the extra mile. –Roger Staubach

• Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance. –Sir Claus Moser

• The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. –Ayn Rand

• Believe you can and you’re halfway there. –Theodore Roosevelt

• When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. –Lao Tzu

• Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill

• Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.  –Robert Frost

• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. –W. Clement Stone

• I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions. –Stephen Covey

• You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. –Christopher Columbus

Hope this helps you.

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