Jane Smiley

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

And if it can’t be fun, what’s the point?

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Never stop fighting for what you believe in and for the people who care about you.

I don’t know exactly what’s next but I’m stepping forward with grit anchored in grace.

At 25, I was in the audience of my first professional speaker, Bob Bales. His presentation got my attention. I had never seen anyone having so much fun ‘at work’ and getting paid for it!

We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

You never fail until you stop trying.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

If you want to earn more, learn more.

There will be times when your best isn’t your good enough. There can be many reasons for this, but as long as you give your best you’ll be OK.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.