Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
