Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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 mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
