The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
