The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
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
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.“
– Thomas Edison
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
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"
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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 man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
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
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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 curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
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
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity, be an honest and compassionate person, and contribute in some way.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
