I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– 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
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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 we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
