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"
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
“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.
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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"
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
