Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
“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.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
