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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
