The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
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
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
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
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
