We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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"
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
