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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
