The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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 wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
