Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
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
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
