Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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 goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
