When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
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
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
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
