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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
