Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Quotes by Famous Personalities

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover."

- Mark Twain

"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."

- Colin Powell

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

- Barack Obama

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

- John F. Kennedy

"Believe you can and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"That’s one small step for a man, a giant leap for mankind."

- Neil Armstrong

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"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. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."

- Liane Cardes

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness."

- Confucius

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

- Sun Tzu

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

- Dr. Seuss

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is like a bird with broken wings that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

- Epictetus

"Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The best way to predict your future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated"

- Maya Angelou

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

- Henry Ford

"I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you’re good at."

- Louis C.K.

"I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time, but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed."

- Dolly Parton

"Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything–all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure–these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important."

- Steve Jobs

"Giving up is the only sure way to fail."

- Gena Showalter

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

- Denis Waitley

"Please know that I am aware of the hazards. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be a challenge to others."

- Amelia Earhart

"We need to accept that we won’t always make the right decisions, that we’ll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it’s part of success."

- Arianna Huffington

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I never dreamed about success, I worked for it"

- Shabana Shaik

"I think, therefore I am."

- René Descartes

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

"Time management is about life management."

- Idowu Koyenikan

"Well done is better than well said."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success."

- Henry Ford

"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart."

- Helen Keller

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."

- Helen Keller

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."

- John R. Wooden

"Don’t be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people get is to take a bite out of you."

- Zig Ziglar

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome."

- Arthur Ashe

"Your most important investment is in yourself."

- Warren Buffett

"Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity."

- Amelia Earhart

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

- George Addair

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."

- Socrates

"Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable."

- Coco Chanel

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

- Ken Robinson

"Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again."

- Richard Branson

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."

- Paulo Coelho

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who’s always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don’t exist."

- Chris Hardwick

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you always got."

- James P. Lewis

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."

- Lance Armstrong

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one."

- John Lennon

"It’s not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts."

- Zig Ziglar

"Everything you want is on the other side of fear."

- Jack Canfield

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."

- Michael Jordan

"Winners are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of success. People who avoid failure also avoid success."

- Robert T. Kiyosaki

"Failure is so important. We speak about success all the time. It is the ability to resist failure or use failure that often leads to greater success. I’ve met people who don’t want to try for fear of failing."

- K. Rowling

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

- LeBron James

"I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."

- Emma Watson

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

- Benjamin Franklin

"My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

- Mia Hamm

"When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel."

- Eloise Ristad

"What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something remarkable?"

- John Green

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

- Bernard M. Baruch

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth."

- William W. Purkey

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

- Mark Twain

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

- Maya Angelou

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

- Oscar Wilde

"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"What we think, we become."

- Buddha

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

- Helen Keller

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honourable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The purpose of life is to believe, to hope, and to strive."

- Indira Gandhi

"Time is what we want most but what we use worst."

- William Penn

"Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present."

- Bill Keane

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done."

- Bruce Lee

"Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday."

- Dale Carnegie

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Time management requires self-discipline, self-mastery, and self-control more than anything else."

- Brian Tracy

"Take care of the minutes and the hours will take care of themselves."

- Lord Chesterfield

"A goal without a plan is just a wish."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

"The purpose of our lives is to be happy."

- Dalai Lama

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."

- Confucius

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough."

- Og Mandino

"Failure isn’t fatal, but failure to change might be."

- John Wooden

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

- George Eliot

"You’ll always miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them."

- John C. Maxwell

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"When you take risks, you learn that there will be times when you succeed, and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"It’s failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

"I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work."

- Thomas Edison

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of 10 things I did were failures. So I did 10 times more work."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe."

- Sumner Redstone

"Don’t let the fear of losing be greater than the excitement of winning."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Lost time is never found again."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life."

- Steve Jobs

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Soren Kierkegaard

"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

- William James

"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

- Charles F. Kettering

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."

- Franz Kafka

"Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things."

- Peter Drucker

"Work gives you meaning and purpose; life is empty without it."

- Stephen Hawking

"Fall in love with the process, and the results will come."

- Eric Thomas

"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Successful people are simply those with successful habits."

- Brian Tracy

"Nothing is particularly hard when you divide it into small jobs."

- Henry Ford

"Productivity is not about eureka moments, your big break, pulling off all-nighters, and drinking Red Bull all day. If you want to achieve things in life, it’s about aiming for daily progress. You want to exercise, work, read, learn, study, every single day."

- Darius Foroux

"You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best."

- Steve Jobs

"So often people are working hard at the wrong thing. Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard."

- Caterina Fake

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."

- Maya Angelou

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

- Helen Keller

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

- William Shakespeare

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Knowledge is power."

- Francis Bacon

"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans."

- Allen Saunders

"The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra."

- Jimmy Johnson

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’"

- Audrey Hepburn

"I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

- Socrates

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."

- John F. Kennedy

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"You become what you believe."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Courage is grace under pressure."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Get busy living or get busy dying."

- Stephen King

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

- Albert Einstein

"Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit."

- Khalil Gibran

"Multitasking is a lie"

- Gary Keller

"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."

- Oscar Wilde

"The healthiest response to life is joy."

- Deepak Chopra

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"Life is a journey that must be travelled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"The most wasted of days is one without laughter."

- E.E. Cummings

"I never look back, darling. It distracts from the now."

- Edna Mode

"Don’t make the same decision twice. Spend time and thought to make a solid decision the first time so that you don’t revisit the issue unnecessarily."

- Bill Gates

"The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge."

- Bertrand Russell

"Being happy never goes out of style."

- Lilly Pulitzer

"Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet."

- Sarah Louise Delany

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

- Grandma Moses

"Life is trying things to see if they work."

- Ray Bradbury

"Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor."

- Sholom Aleichem

"The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything."

- Frank Sinatra

"There’s a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice, you’ll never be successful."

- Shia LaBeouf

"Rearranging your day around when you have the most energy is one simple way to work smarter instead of just harder."

- Chris Bailey

"It’s not about the paycheck, it’s about respect, it’s about looking in the mirror and knowing that you’ve done something valuable with your day."

- Dave Kovic

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

- Wyatt Earp

"In union there is strength."

- Aesop

"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

- Victor Hugo

"Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them."

- David Allen

"Productivity is not about getting everything done, rather it is about getting things done effectively."

- Brianna Gray

"A man may fall many times, but he won’t be a failure until he says that someone pushed him."

- Elmer G. Letterman

"All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players."

- William Shakespeare

"If you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail…it takes backbone to lead the life you want"

- Richard Yates

"Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement."

- Charles F. Kettering

"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin

"The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows."

- Buddha

"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success."

- James Cameron

"Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live."

- Kevin Bacon

"There are no failures–just experiences and your reactions to them."

- Tom Krause

"Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about."

- Marilyn Monroe

"We are all failures–at least the best of us are."

- M. Barrie

"I’d rather be partly great than entirely useless."

- Neal Shusterman

"The phoenix must burn to emerge."

- Janet Fitch

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"Everything you can imagine is real."

- Pablo Picasso

"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

- J.M. Power

"Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain."

- Henry Ford

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

- Alexandre Dumas

"It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

- Laura Ingalls Wilder

"Always remember, your focus determines your reality."

- George Lucas

"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

"You only live once, but if you live it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."

- Criss Jami

"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."

- Dan Millman

"Life is short and it is here to be lived."

- Katharine Hepburn

"Let us never forget that medicine is for people. It is not for profit, it is not for status, it is not for self."

- Albert Schweitzer

"The Wright brothers didn’t have a wind tunnel to test their flying machines. They built a kite and got to work."

- Sheryl Sandberg

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"Start before you’re ready."

- Steven Pressfield

"The old man and the sea is a story about the triumph of the human spirit."

- Ernest Hemingway

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

- Cicero

"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."

- Dr. Seuss

"Rome wasn’t built in a day."

- John Heywood

"Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead Walk beside me… just be my friend"

- Albert Camus

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

- Oscar Wilde

"Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself ...""

- C.S. Lewis

"Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself."

- Alice Walker

"Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results."

- Rita Mae Brown

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

- Andre Gide

"Become the person who would attract the results you seek."

- Jim Cathcart

"So many books, so little time."

- Frank Zappa

"I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation."

- Bo Bennett

"Anybody who tells you money can’t buy happiness never had any."

- Samuel L. Jackson

"The older you get the more you realize that kindness is synonymous with happiness."

- Lionel Barrymore

"No matter how many customers you have, each is an individual. The day you start thinking of them as this amorphous ‘collection’ and stop thinking of them as people is the day you start going out of business."

- Dharmesh Shah

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."

- Phyllis Diller

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory."

- Ingrid Bergman

"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open."

- John Barrymore

"Happiness is having a large, caring, close-knit family in another city."

- George Burns

"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."

- Will Durant

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Albert Einstein

"Solve customer problems and make sure that the customer is representative of a large market and then you will have a pretty good formula."

- Melanie Perkins

"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy."

- William Shakespeare

"Not in doing what you like but in liking what you do is the secret of happiness."

- J.M. Barrie

"The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."

- Mark Twain

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

- Robert Frost

"The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul."

- Alexandra Stoddard

"A small leak will sink a great ship."

- Benjamin Franklin

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

- William Shakespeare

"Doubt is a killer. You just have to know who you are and what you stand for."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"A man always has two reasons for doing anything—a good reason and the real reason."

- J. Pierpont Morgan

"It’s not necessary to take a person’s advice to make him feel good—all you have to do is ask it."

- Richard Armour

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors."

- Tom Snyder

"Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back."

- Eugene O’Neill

"It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus."

"Don’t stop when you’re tired, stop when you’re done."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Life is a beautiful journey, that is meant to be embraced to the fullest every day."