Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
