The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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 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
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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"
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
