We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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"
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
