A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
