Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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"
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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"
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
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
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
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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"
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
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
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 job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
