Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
“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.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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 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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
If you would create something, you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
A man without a smiling face should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
