Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
