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"
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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 may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
