If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
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
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
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– 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
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
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
