Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
