He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
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
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
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
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
