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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
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
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 we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– 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
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
