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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
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
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
