Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
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 bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
