Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
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"
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
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
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
