Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
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
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
