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
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
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 often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
