We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
