Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
Chinese proverb
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
J.G. Holland, novelist
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leo Jozef Suenens
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
Napoleon
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar Wilde
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Erica Jong
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
Anais Nin
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
Tony Robbins
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
Marcel Proust
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
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
Steven Schussler
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
Booker T. Washington
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
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
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
Christopher Morley
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
Victor Kiam
Never cut what you can untie.”
Joseph Joubert
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
Anthony Trollope
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
Mary Oliver
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
Gandi
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
Benjamin Disraeli
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
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
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
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
Oprah Winfrey
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
Lord Chesterfield
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
Steve Jobs
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