The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
