The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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
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
