If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
“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.
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
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
