We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
