Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
“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.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
