Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
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"
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
“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.
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
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
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
