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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
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
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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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"
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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"
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
