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

– Charles Dickens

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

– Martha Beck

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

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

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”

– Victor Kiam

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”

– Steve Jobs

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

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”

– Ajahn Chah

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

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

– E.B. White

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
 The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”

– Sonia Croquette

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”

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

With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”

– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

– William James

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

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

– Henry David Thoreau

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

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

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

– Buddha

If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”

– Oprah Winfrey

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

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

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

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

– Maureen Cook

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

– Carl Rogers

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”

– Kathleen Jo Ryan

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

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

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”

– Seth Godin