Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
