Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
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
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
“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.
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
