As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
“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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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
