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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
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
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
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
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
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"
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
