No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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 take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
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 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
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
