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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– 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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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 aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
