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