The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

‎That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”

– Steven Schussler

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”

– Marilyn vos Savant

Do one thing every day that scares you.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”

– Andy Sernovitz

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”

– Susan Jeffers

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas

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

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

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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

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

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”

– President Calvin Coolidge

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”

– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”

– Anita Roddick

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

– Jack Kerouac

He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”

– African Proverb

A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”

– Chinese Proverb

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”

– Jalaluddin Rumi

I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Carroll

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”

– Mary Kay Ash

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”

– T.S. Eliott

Never never never never give up.”

– Winston Churchill

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix