The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
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
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
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 we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
