That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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"
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
