No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
Warren Buffett
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
Thomas Edison
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
Magical
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
Martha Beck
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
Martha Beck
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
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
Lao Tzu
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
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
Leonard Cohen
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
Francesca Reigle
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
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
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
Chinese Proverb
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
Annie Dillard
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
Hindu Proverb
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
Martha Beck
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
John D. Rockefeller
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
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
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"
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
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
Albert Schweitzer
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
Robert Frost
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
Henry Miller
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
John Quincy Adams
Ripeness is all.”
William Shakespeare
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
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
Leon Joseph Suenens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
Charles Dickens
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
Norwegian proverb