The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
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
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
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
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
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
