That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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"
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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"
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
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 discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
