Motivational Prints
ENTHUSIASM is the topic of our newest POSITIVE EDGE print.
The Positive Edge offers fine digital prints on major topics, available now in our shop. We select well-known authors to showcase their thoughts, with calligraphy design by San Francisco Bay Area artist Ann Balaam Miller. These are ideal for libraries and educational spaces!
The power of enthusiasm is noted by famous authors such as Sargent Shriver, Vince Lombardi, Alexander Hamilton, Anatole France, Aldous Huxley, Anatole France, and Placido Domingo, among others. Designed and handlettered by California Bay Area artist Ann Balaam Miller.
KINDNESS is the enduring quality in relationships, the feeling and touch we always remember. We chose words from 16 great people, including Jack Kerouac, FDR, Roy T. Bennett, Confucius, the 14th Dalai Lama, Kahlil Gibran, Albert Einstein, Princess Diana, Leo Holub, Eric Hoffer, Plato, and Mark Twain. The design, calligraphy, and original watercolor banner are by California Bay Area artist Ann Balaam Miller.
FAITH is the ineffable quality that keeps us hopeful and creative in the experience of life and the subject of our 2023 poster. Written observations on the meaning of faith are from Mahalia Jackson, J.R.R. Tolkien, Alan Watts, Eleanor Roosevelt, Voltaire, Gandhi, Gregory Peck, and Mitch Albom are among the 17 quotes we chose. The design, calligraphy, and original watercolor banner drawing are by California artist Ann Miller.
PATIENCE as we travel our path, feeling the impermanence—This Too Shall Pass—and reflecting on the events of 2022. Observations on life from Chaucer, Saadi, Gandhi, and Tolstoy are among the 17 quotes we selected for you. The design, hand lettering, and watercolor painting of the Northern California Coast is by Ann Miller.
HOPE was our theme for 2020, an experience that affected all of us. Hand lettering by artist and designer Ann Miller.
DAD - Our 2019 print is an enduring tribute to fatherhood with quotes from fourteen well known authors.
Positive Edge prints resonate!
Some of our prints are collections of many quotes on a single central subject, such as Hope, Integrity, and Family. Go directly to our shop to explore up close!
KINDNESS is the enduring quality in relationships, the feeling and touch we always remember. We chose words from 16 great people, including Jack Kerouac, FDR, Roy T. Bennett, Confucius, the 14th Dalai Lama, Kahlil Gibran, Albert Einstein, Princess Diana, Leo Holub, Eric Hoffer, Plato, and Mark Twain. The design, calligraphy, and original watercolor banner are by California Bay Area artist Ann Balaam Miller.
FAITH is the subject of our 2023 poster. We chose quotes from 17 authors including Mahalia Jackson, J. R. R. Tolkien, Alan Watts, Eleanor Roosevelt, Voltaire, Gandhi, Gregory Peck, and Mitch Albom. The design, calligraphy, and original watercolor banner drawing are by California artist Ann Miller. The 11 x 14” poster is digitally printed on Classic Avon Brilliant White 100# Cover in a limited edition of 100 copies.
PATIENCE as we travel our path, feeling the impermanence—This Too Shall Pass—and reflecting on our thoughts and actions and events around us. Observations from Chaucer, Saadi, Gandhi, and Tolstoy are among the 17 quotes represented. The design, hand lettering, and watercolor painting of the Northern California Coast is by Ann Miller.
Our most recent and popular poster has 18 quotes on Wisdom from these well-known sources: Lao Tzu, Truman Capote, Baltasar Gracian, Marilyn Vos Savant, Mark Twain, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Camille Alice, Doug Larson, George Santayana, Confucius, Lionel Kenney, Albert Einstein, Osho and Stefan Einhorn, plus one from the Bible.
Our HOPE print is a collection of encouraging and incisive quotes from 15 well known writers and speakers. We enjoyed finding examples that reflect something we can all use as we reflect on the experience that the year 2020 has brought!
This 11 x 14” print is produced on Classic Solar White Cover stock and looks wonderful framed and on the wall.
These words by John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) will never go out of style. Whittier is a famous American Quaker poet and staunch abolitionist. We put his signature graphic on this handsome red and black print on Classic Laid Off White Cover stock, and added a gold foil stamp for his name.
11 x 14"
034-NEQ
5.00
John Greenleaf Whittier says "Never Quit"...post this on your wall (or your kid's wall) for motivation!
A collection of famous authors’ quotes on the value of worry. John Lubbock, Robert Frost, Erma Bombeck, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, The Dalai Lama, Corrie Ten Boom, William Powell, Elbert Hubbard, Eleanor Roosevelt, Robert Fulghum.
Insightful quote on facing life's difficulties, by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. the famous physician, poet, professor, lecturer, and author and father of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. the famous American Supreme Court Justice. Calligraphy and design by Ann Miller.
11" x 14" - Offset printed in rich red and black on Classic Laid Ivorystone 80# Cover stock.
Four quotes on the importance of forgiveness: Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Corrie Ten Boom and Jeanette Vought.
George Washington Carver on the human condition. He cites the complexity of living a fully engaged and responsible life. Written out by Ann Miller with brush and pen.
11" x 14" - Offset printed on Classic Crest Brushed Khaki 80# Cover in red, gray and dark brown inks with the name in gold foil stamp.
010-CAR
5.00
Apollo 11 and with the verse “You Can If You Think You Can” by poet Walter Wintle on what it takes to be successful in reaching toward a goal, illustrated by the landing of the lunar module Eagle in 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
Integrity: The words of nine outstanding people on integrity anchored with a quote from the Bible, Proverbs 10:9.
Quotes by Confucius, Anne Frank, Sir Walter Scott, Marcus Aurelius, Heraclitus, Buckminster Fuller, Albert Einstein, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn and H Jackson Brown. “A man with integrity walks securely - Proverbs 10:9.”
A great collection of our curated quotes on family by some of our best writers and thinkers. Fourteen quotes from Thomas Jefferson, George Santayana, Bob Ehrlich, Desmond Tutu, Charles Kuralt, Ashleigh Brilliant, Jane Howard, Harmon Killebrew, Maureen O'Hara, Walt Disney, Herbert Prochnov, Albert Einstein, Gail Lumet Buckley and George Bernard Shaw. For instance: "If you don't believe in ghosts, you've never been to a family reunion." - Ashleigh Brilliant
Love - This is the well-known quote on love from Paul's First Letter to the Corinthians from the Bible’s New Testament.
Tough Times - In honor of the first responders, the emergency crews and workers who came in the aftermath of the September 11 Twin Towers disaster. Since this print was designed during the weeks that followed the event, it is illustrated with a background photograph showing the devastation, the remains of the buildings, and honors the courageous reconstruction workers on the site of New York's World Trade Center at ground zero.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe's life spanned the 18th and early 19th centuries, and his insight into the qualities of commitment still guides us today. “Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it now!”
No Regrets - A memorable excerpt from Barbara Bush's famous and warmly-received commencement address at Wellesley College given in June 1990 when she was First Lady during the presidency of her husband, George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st president of the United States.
Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks out on Generosity. This quote includes the image of Emerson's signature, and is illustrated with a versal initial and casual majuscules by calligrapher Ann Miller.
Wisdom and good humor on Friendship from 14 great writers: O. Henry, Elbert Hubbard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Kahlil Gibran, Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, Plutarch, Cicero, Robert Brault, Charles Caleb Colton, John Churton Collins, Oscar Wilde, Sarah Dessen, and William Shakespeare.
A commentary on the fleeting nature of life and the value of maintaining friendship. Illustrated with the falling of autumn leaves and a sense of words in the wind.
Sir Winston Churchill's famous commencement address at England's Oxford University consisted of these four words repeated twice, with a long pause between each phrase. It is the shortest recorded speech in history.
Do It Now! - This familiar theme is a reminder to honor your needs and desires and act on them before it's too late! Motivational quote on some of the reasons for procrastination, illustrated with ink spatters, energetic brush calligraphy and informal broad pen calligraphy.
11.5 x 15"
Offset printed on Classic Crest Natural White 80# Cover in bright red and black plus grey tints.
Teddy Roosevelt - One of United States President Teddy Roosevelt’s most famous speeches on the natural perseverance of the enlightened individual.
“Look To This Day” is the famous Salutation to the Dawn by Kalidasa (4th-5th c. CE), the greatest of the Sanskrit dramatists, and the first great name in Sanskrit literature after Ashvaghoshha.
Abe Lincoln - Famous quote on right livelihood—effort, purpose and determination—by Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the United States, which describes our everyday work in life. Illustrated with the well-known memorial statue in Washington, D.C and the Abraham Lincoln’s signature.
The magnificent power of enthusiasm is noted by famous authors such as Sargent Shriver, Vince Lombardi, Alexander Hamilton, Anatole France, and Placido Domingo, among others. Designed and handlettered by California Bay Area artist Ann Balaam Miller. Printed by American Printing in Fremont, California.