When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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"
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
