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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
