Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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"
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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"
“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.
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
