The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
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
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
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
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
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
