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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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"
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
