Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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 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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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"
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
