Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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 possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
