The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
