Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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"
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
