Never never never never give up.”
Winston Churchill
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
Bruce Lee
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
Woodrow Wilson
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
Andy Sernovitz
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
Mark Twain
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
Mae West
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
General Omar Bradley
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
Thomas Edison
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
William Shakespeare
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
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
Groucho Marx
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
Carlos Castaneda
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
Betty Smith
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
Gandi
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
Anita Roddick
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. DeMille
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
Bob Dylan
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
J.K. Rowling
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
Suzy Welch
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
Byron Katie
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
Muhammad Yunus
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
Barack Obama
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
President Calvin Coolidge
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
Langston Hughes
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
James Madison
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
Jack Kerouac
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
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
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
Tao Te Ching
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies