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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
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"
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
Thomas Dunn
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
John Lennon
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
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 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 less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
Steve Jobs
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
Corita Kent
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
Steven Schussler