A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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"
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
