We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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 aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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"
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
