Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
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
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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 is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
