Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
