Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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"
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
