As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
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"
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
