We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
“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.
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
