Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
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
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
