Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
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"
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 a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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"
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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
