Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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 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
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
