Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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"
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
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 easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Try not to become a man of success but rather try 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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
“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.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
