“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.”
- Marianne Williamson
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
- Peter Drucker
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.
- Phyllis Bottome
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
- Johann von Goethe
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
- Pearl S. Buck
All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.
- William F. Halsey
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
- Thomas Jefferson
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.
- Henry Miller
The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
- Nicholas Murray Butler
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
- John Dewey
It wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark.
- Howard Ruff
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.
- Benjamin Disraeli
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
- Alexander Chase
We can’t take any credit for our talents. It’s how we use them that counts.
- Madeleine L’Engle
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
- Gail Sheehy
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- James Oppenheim
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.
- Roy M. Goodman
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
- Friedrich Engels
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and activity.
- Donald G. Mitchell