Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
