Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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 take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
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
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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 limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
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
