In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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 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
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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"
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
