Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
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
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
