The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
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 real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
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
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
