That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
African Proverb
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
Ajahn Chah
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
Joseph Joubert
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
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
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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
Maya Angelou
“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.
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Ripeness is all.”
William Shakespeare
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
Thomas Wolfe
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
Andrew Carnegie
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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