Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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 can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
