“You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie
“Some heroes’ capes are invisible.”
– Anonymous
“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.”
– Richard Buckminster Fuller
“People are not your most important asset; the right people are.”
– Jim Collins
“That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.”
– Emily Dickinson
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”
– CS Lewis
“Leaders who leverage influence and harness power for the best interests of others are revered, successful, and significant.”
– Jeremie Kubicek
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All life is an experiment.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
– Gail Sheehy
“As long as I’m faced in the right direction, it does not matter the size of my steps.”
– Erica Lawrence
“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.”
– Einstein
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”
– Confucius
“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.”
– William Jennings Bryan
“For fast-acting relief, try slowing down.”
– Lily Tomlin
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
– Rumi
“No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten
off the ship in the storm.”
– Charles Kettering
“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best
friend.”
– Bill Watterson
“We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
– Cynthia Ozick
“In order to live happily and free, you may have to sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.”
– Richard Bach
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
– Douglas Everett
“Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.”
– Wayne Dyer
“Don’t live in the circumstances of your life…live in the possibilities.”
– Oprah
“There are no easy answers but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.”
– Ronald Reagan
“When you’re trying to motivate yourself, appreciate the fact that you’re even thinking about making a change. And as you move forward, allow yourself to be good enough.”
– Alice Domar
“Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards — the things we live by and teach our children — are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.”
– Walt Disney
“A problem is your chance to do your best.”
– Duke Ellington
“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”
– Jack Kornfield
“Focus on the present, and enhance your time and life now rather than always working toward tomorrow.”
– Dr. Laura Berman
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I receive what I need.”
– Tao Te Ching
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
– Mark Twain
“We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.”
– Louisa May Alcott
“Agree to these ground rules: Be curious, conversational and real. Don’t persuade or interrupt. Listen, listen, listen.”
– Elizabeth Lesser
“Before you can learn a new way of doing things, you have to unlearn the old way. So beginnings depend on endings.”
– Rick Maurer
“The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you — you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.”
– Cheryl Richardson
“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing — light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light.”
– Jodi Picoult
“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
– Bruce Lee
“The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it’s not just divinely assigned.”
– Michael J. Fox
“It’s the little things you do that make the big things happen.”
– Mike Dooley
“The one thing all famous authors, world class athletes, business tycoons, singers, actors, and celebrated achievers in any field have in common is that they all began their journeys when they were none of these things. Yet still, they began their journeys.”
– Mike Dooley
“Never give up on your dream… perseverance is all important. If you don’t have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you’ve been told you should quit, you’ll never make it.”
– Tawni O’Dell
“The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.”
– Lao Tzu
“Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances,losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.”
– Author Unknown
“Eating everything you want is not that much fun. When you live a life with no boundaries, there’s less joy. If you can eat anything you want to, what’s the fun in eating anything you want to?”
– Tom Hanks
“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.”
– Wilson Mizner
“You can take from every experience what it has to offer you.And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me.Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.”
– Steve Jobs
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life…that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“There is always something you can do about any problem, even if it is just changing your perspective on how you feel about the problem.”
– David DeNotaris