Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
