We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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"
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
