A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
Thomas Wolfe
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
Theodore Roosevelt
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
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"
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
T.S. Eliott
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
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
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
Andrew Carnegie
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
Steven Schussler
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
Helen Keller
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
Seth Godin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens