The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
