I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

– James Madison

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leon Joseph Suenens

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”

– Vin Diesel

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

– Robert Frost

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

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

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

Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”

– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”

– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”

– Frederic Nietzsche

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”

– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon