We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

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

– Jesse Jackson

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

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

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Michelle Sedas

Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”

– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine

We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”

– William Blake

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”

– Steve Jobs

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”

– Charles Darwin

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

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”

– Ecclesiastes, 7:10

Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”

– Warren Buffett

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”

– Guy Kawasaki

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Bruce Lee

My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”

– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International

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

– Thomas Edison

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”

– Arundhati Roy

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

There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”

– John Lennon

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

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”

– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

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

The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”

– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

– Thomas Edison

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

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”

– Virginia Woolf

It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”

– Alfred Adler

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

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

– Lao Tzu