The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
“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.
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
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
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
