He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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"
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
