Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
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"
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
