You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
Maya Angelou
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 people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
Zig Ziglar
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
Emily Dickinson
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese 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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
Thomas Edison
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
Thomas Carlyle
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
Arthur Rubinstein
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
Richard Dumb
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
Lewis Carroll
“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.
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
August Rush
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
E.B. White
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
Andrew Carnegie
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
Joseph Cambell
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
Carlos Castaneda
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
Dalai Lama
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington