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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
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
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
