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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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"
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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 your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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"
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
