There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
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
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
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
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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"
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
