Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
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 people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
