We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
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
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
