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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“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.
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
