Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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"
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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 longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
