If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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"
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
