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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
