There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
