Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
Goldie Hawn
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
Marilyn vos Savant
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
Basil King
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
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
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"
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
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
The journey is the reward.”
Greg Norman
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
John Lennon
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens