The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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"
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
