Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
