That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
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 truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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"
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
