Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
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
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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 can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
