Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
