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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

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

– John Lennon

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
 A terrible thing: no one to blame.”

– Erica Jong

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

– Christopher Robin to Pooh

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

– Albert Einstein

When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”

– Audre Lorde

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”

– Thomas Wolfe

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

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

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

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

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

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.

– Carl von Clausewitz, On War

When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”

– Henry David Thoreau

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“


– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

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 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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”

– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”

– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"

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

– James Madison

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”

– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell