To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
