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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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 does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
