The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
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
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
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
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
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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"
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
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
