Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
