A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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"
