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
