The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
