Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
“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.
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
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"
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
