The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
