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