Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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"
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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 only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
