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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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 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
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
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
