Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
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
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
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 important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
