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 people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
