The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
