If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
