If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
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
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
Andy Sernovitz
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
Martha Beck
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
Eve Ensler
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
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
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
Passion makes perfect.”
Eugene Biro
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
Suzy Welch
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent