Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
Gandi
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
JFK
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
Frederic Nietzsche
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
Robert H. Schuller
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
Martha Beck
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
Eve Ensler
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
Tony Robbins
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
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 sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
Madam C.J. Walker
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Eckhart Tolle
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
JFK
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
Mary Kay Ash
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
Basil King
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
William Blake
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
Edgar W. Howe
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
Victor Kiam
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
Jimi Hendrix
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
Guy Kawasaki
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt