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
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
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
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
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
