What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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 easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
