A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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 awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
