It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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"
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
