Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
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’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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 diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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"
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
“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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
