We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
