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 would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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"
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
