If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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"
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
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
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
