My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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"
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
