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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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 try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
