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When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”

– Anna Quindlen

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”

– JFK

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”

– Betty Smith

The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”

– J. Robert Oppenheimer

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

We never know how high we are
 till we are called to rise;
 And then, if we are true to plan,
 Our statures touch the skies.”

– Emily Dickinson

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”

– Lisa Earle McLeod

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”

– Thomas Edison

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”

– Ted Leonsis

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

– Seneca

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”

– Joseph Addison

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

– Mark Twain