No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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"
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
