Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

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

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

You may ask me for anything you like except time.”

– Napoleon

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

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

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

– Robert Frost

Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”

– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"

Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”

– Benjamin Franklin

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

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

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”

– Anais Nin

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

When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.

– Ellen DeGeneres

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”

– Buddha

The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”

– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone

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

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”

– Voltaire

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

– Corita Kent

The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”

– Tony Robbins

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

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

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”

– Audre Lorde