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The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”

– Barack Obama

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”

– Mae West

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. 
Now put foundations under them.”

– Henry David Thoreau

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
 If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”

– Louisa May Alcott

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”

– Suzy Welch

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”

– John Quincy Adams

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”

– Thomas Dunn

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”

– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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 good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”

– Martha Beck

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

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

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

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”

– Victor Kiam

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”

– Bob Dylan