The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
