No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
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
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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
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
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
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
