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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– 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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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 great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
