That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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"
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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 only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
