Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
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
