No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
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
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
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
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
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
