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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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"
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
