The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
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
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“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.
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
