Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
“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.
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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"
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
