The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
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
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
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
