Quotes
Attitude
Scottish Proverb
Do not judge by appearances; a rich heart may be under a poor coat
Maya Angelou
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude
Ali Krieger
You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.
Richard Bach
Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Benjamin Disraeli
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Irving Berlin
Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force
Business
Chinese Proverb
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader
Henry David Thoreau
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
Ryan Allis
Have the end in mind and every day make sure your working towards it
Thomas Jefferson
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
Peter Drucker
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Communication
Proverb
From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance
Stephen R. Covey
When the trust account is high, communication is easy, instant, and effective
Benjamin E. Mays
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other
Shannon L. Alder
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't being said. The art of reading between the lines is a life long quest of the wise.
Lee Lacocca
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Pythagoras
Be silent, or say something better than silence
Plato
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Dreams
Chinese Proverb
I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one
Colin Powell
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work
Ben Carson
Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams
Arthur Ashe
Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.
Langston Hughes
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Harriet Tubman
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Education
Henry Adams
They know enough who know how to learn
Malcolm X
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today
Kofi Annan
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family
G.K. Chesterton
Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
C.S. Lewis
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
Nelson Mandela
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Friendship
Walter Winchell
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out
C.S. Lewis
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one
Washington Irving
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart
Plutarch
I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.
Winnie the Pooh
If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.
Ben Franklin
Friendship increases by visiting friends but visiting seldom.
Happiness
Chinese Proverb
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring
Maxime Lagacé
Happiness is not doing fun things. Happiness is doing meaningful things
Carrie Underwood
Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on
Rita Mae Brown
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Marcus Aurelius
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Mahatma Gandhi
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony
Dalai Lama
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Motivational
Eleanor Roosevelt
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts
George Whitefield
Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you
Helen Keller
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye
Sam Levenson
Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
Roy T. Bennett
Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.
Zig Ziglar
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
Matthew Donnelly
We can’t fully encompass our motivational and inspirational awareness without fully understanding our purpose in life.
Personality
Bruce Lee
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it
Alphonse Karr
Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has
Gianluigi Buffon
I believe in doing the right things; that is my character and personality
Anonymous
I don't think we will ever get along. I have too many personalities, and you haven't even got one
Shakira
A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.
Beatrix Potter
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
Kurt Cobain
I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.
Responsibility
Allanah Hunt
It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are
John C. Maxwell
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up
Les Brown
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams
Lou Holtz
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
Noam Chomsky
Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.
Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Malcolm Forbes
Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
