Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
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"
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
