Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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"
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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 make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
