If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
