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
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
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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"
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
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
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
