Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
