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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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
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
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
