In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
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
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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"
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
