Thoughts

Thoughts and words travel just as God's life travels. They do not travel like an individual, but you breathe your spiritual life into the atmosphere as you do your breath, and someone else breathes it in. Those not present still receive it, for it permeats space, and all live in it and receive from it according to their unfoldment.

(Inscribed on a wall inside of Memorial Church at Stanford University)

Worry

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.
--Corrie ten Boom, Dutch writer

Hardness

“What is harder than rock? What is softer than water? Yet hard rocks are hollowed out by soft water?”
― Seneca

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs like to keep everything close to their chest, but you can move quicker and more creatively if you give your employees the autonomy to complete their projects with direction, but without micro-managing.

--Ryan Stephens, founder of Ryan Stephens Marketing

Listining

When you've been right a lot, you don't listen to anybody.

--John Galardi, founder of Wienerschnitzel

Wait

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.
--John Lubbock, British banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist

Progress

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

--Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian

Heart and Reason

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
-Blaise Pascal, (Philosopher and Mathematician)

Contribution

If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.

--Walter Gropius, German architect

Painters

There are painters who transform the Sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the Sun.

--Pablo Picasso

Creativity

Be Creative. Don't be worried about what you are doing - one has to do many things - but do everything creatively, with devotion. Then your work become devotion. Then whatsoever you do is a prayer. And whatsoever you do is an offering at the altar.

-- Rajneesh Osho

Hardwork

I believe in the dignity of labour whether with head or with hand; and that the world owes no one a living, but it owes everyone an opportunity to make a living.

-- John D Rockefeller

Ability

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour."

--Henry David Thoreau, American author and poet

Labour

All labour that uplifts the humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.


-- Martin Luther King Jr

Joy & Sorrow

That sorrow which is the harbinger of joy is preferable to the joy which is followed by sorrow.

--Saadi, poet (c.1213-1291)

Passion

In everyone's life, at some time, the inner fire of the being goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

--Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, musician, Nobel laureate (1875-1965)

Persuasion

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.

--Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor

Vulnerability

Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

--Mother Teresa,Albanian-Indian nun and humanitarian

Remembrance

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feelings that you cherished for them.

-- Richard L. Evans

Experience

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

--Denis Waitley

Discovery

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.

-–R. Buckminster Fuller

Failure

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

-–Wayne Gretzky

Happiness

Be so happy that when others look at you, they become happy too.

-- Anonymous

Character

Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.

-- Anonymous

Mistakes

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

-–Thomas Carlyle

Mistakes

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from someone who does.

-–Herbert Brocknow

Mistakes

All discoveries in art and science result from an accumulation of errors.

-–Marshall McLuhan

Greatness

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

--Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

Friends

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

--Anthony Tjan, CEO, managing partner and founder of Cue Ball

Change

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
--Aristotle

Spirituality

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

-– Rick D’Orrazio

Faith

Stop telling God how big your storm is.Instead tell your storm how big your GOD is.

-– Anonymous

Greed

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

--Cyril Connolly

Idea

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

-Linus Pauling, chemist, peace activist, author, educator; Nobel Prize in chemistry, Nobel Peace Prize (1901-1994)

Pretension

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

--Giacomo Leopardi, Italian poet, essayist and philosopher

Action

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do... so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour, catch the trade winds in your sails... dream, explore, discover.

-- Mark Twain

Happiness

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

--Benjamin Disraeli

Persistence

Like any dream, you have to start by believing that you can do it. You don't quite know how it will turn out but you start anyway. Discipline is your best friend. If you have the discipline to write two pages every day, after 150 days, you have 300 pages. I actually use this in my speeches to show students how important discipline is. Something small, writing two pages, if done repeatedly can become something big, a 300-page book. That's my motto for success: dream big, do small, every day.


-- Mawi Asgedom

Worth

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

-- Muhammad Iqbal

Need

Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

--Howard Thurman

Life

Life is a field and you are born to cultivate it. And if you know how to cultivate this field you can produce anything you like. All the need of your life can be produced in this field. All that your soul yearns after and all you need is to be got from the field, if you know how to cultivate it and how to reap the fruit.

-- Kabir

Plan

Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

Ability

If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.

-- Albert Einstein

Actions

My actions are my only true belogings. I cannot escape consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

Wisdom

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

--Thomas Gray

Beginning

I have always been delighted at the prospects of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

-- J B Priestly

Redemption

Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

-- Adlai Stevenson

Work

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it.

--John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Tranquility

I am sustained by the tranquility of an upright and loyal heart.

--Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch-American Statesman

Investment

The rich invest their money and spend what is left, the poor spend their money and invest what is left.

--Robert Kiyosaki, Author (Rich Dad Poor Dad)

Planning

Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail.

--Alan Lakein

Goals

Only three percent of adults have written goals; and everyone else works for them.

--Brian Tracy

Vision

It is the most terrible thing to see, but have no vision.

--Helen Keller

Happiness

Your Success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to be happy. You and your joys shall then become invincible against difficulties.

--Helen Keller

Kindness

So many gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind, while just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.

--Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet (1850-1919)

Instructions

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

--George S. Patton, U.S. Army General

Decision

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor, and move on.

-- Anonymous

Justice

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

--Elie Wiesel, Writer (Nobel laureate)

Danger

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

--Alfred Adler

Journey

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

--Lao Tzu

Talent

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

--Leo Buscaglia

Entrepreneurship

Paralysis by analysis is a very real threat when starting a new venture. If you get caught in the weeds you’ll never take that first step."

--Tony Navarro, founder and CEO of Streamcal

Dreams

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind

-- Sigmund Freud

Beauty

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people.

--Richard Armour

Fortitude

No matter how emotional your opponents are, you must be calm.

--Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Activist

Disposition

It is not your position that makes you happy or unhappy, it is your disposition.

--Anonymous

Boredom

Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.

--Og Mandino, American author

Accomplishment

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from transmission of ideas of enthusiasm.

-- Thomas J Watson

Courage

A good swordsman is not given to quarrel.

--French proverb

Liberty

When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.

--William Durant, American writer, historian and philosopher

Inspiration

If you inspire, you are a leader. If you are inspired, you are an entrepreneur.

--Rich Russakoff and Mary Goodman, co-founders of Bottom Line Up Enterprises

Humor

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

Strong

The world breaks everyone and afterwards many are strong in the broken places.

--Ernest Hemingway, American author

Ability

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

--Henry David Thoreau, American author and poet

Peace

When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

--Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French writer

Adequacy

Think not on what you lack as much as on what you have.

- Proverb

Future

Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.

- Dean Acheson

Praise

Do not praise yourself while going into battle; praise yourself coming out of battle.

- Russian proverb

Potential

The greatest crime in the world is - not developing your potential. When you do your best, you are helping others.

- Roger Williams

Time

If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?

- John Wooden

Perfection

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love/Hate

Hate leaves ugly scars; love leaves beautiful ones.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Forgiveness

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

- John F. Kennedy

Efforts

Make each day your masterpiece.

- John Wooden

Attention

Only through focus can you do world-class things, no matter how capable you are.

- Bill Gates

Difficulties

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

- William Ellery Channing

Adjustment

There are plenty of reasons not to put up with the world as it is.

--José Saramago, Portuguese writer