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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
Indira Ghandi
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 wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
Joseph Addison
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
Charles Darwin
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
Kathleen Jo Ryan
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
Andrew Carnegie
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
Tony Robbins
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
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"
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
Eve Ensler
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
Susan Jeffers
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
Aristotle
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
Steven Schussler