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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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"
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
