Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
Albert Einstein
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
Anna Pavlova
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
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
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
Brian Tracy
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
Ella Fitzgerald
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
Michelle Sedas
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
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
Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
Ripeness is all.”
William Shakespeare
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
Sonia Croquette
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
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
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
A wisdomism
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