Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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"
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
