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

Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”

– Helen Keller

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”

– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”

– Andrew Carnegie

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

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

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

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

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”

– Abraham Lincoln

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”

– Dalai Lama

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

‎The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

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

Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”

– Martha Beck

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. 
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”

– Mary Jean Irion

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin