We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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"
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– 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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
