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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
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
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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"
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
