The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
