Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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"
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
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
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 quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
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
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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 possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
