Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
