The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
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
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
