Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
Henry David Thoreau
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Indira Ghandi
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
Optimism rules
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
Steve Jobs
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
John Lennon
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
Martha Beck
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer