CAREER & LIFE DECISIONS

1. "It starts with your heart and radiates out." -- Cesar Chavez
2. "There are many things to do in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those." -- Anonymous
3. "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." -- Albert Einstein
4. "A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder." -- Thomas Carlyle (this was a multi-purpose quote used by my mom in high school speech and debate events)
5. "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for." -- Grace Hopper
6. "Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life. One has to follow it, even though one enters into a way full of difficulties." -- Mother Teresa
7. "Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do." - Barbara Sher
8. "You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are." -- Fred Rogers, children's television host
9. "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" -- Dr. Robert Schuller
10. "Chance favors the prepared mind." -- Anonymous
11. "Each man should frame his life so that, at some future hour, fact and dreamings meet." -- Victor Hugo
12. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -- Thomas Edison
13. "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to success is always to try just one more time." -- Thomas Edison
14. "Follow your bliss." -- Joseph Campbell
15. "There's only one person in the whole world like you. If you think about it for a moment, there never has been...and there never will be -- in the history of the earth -- another person just like you." -- Fred Rogers, children's television host
16. "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." -- Henry Ford
17. "When there is no wind, row." -- Portuguese proverb
18. "Do what you love, love what you do, and deliver more than you promise." -- Harvey McKay
19. "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. "There is no prosperity without adversity." - Welsh proverb
21. "When the game is over, the king goes back in the sack just like the pawn." -- Italian saying
22. "Ordinary people can achieve extraordinary things -- but only if they take action. Emotion without action is wasted." -- Jody Williams
23. "Whether you think you can do a thing or not, you're right." -- Henry Ford
24. "Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." -- Helen Keller
25. "We have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime." -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
26. "There isn't a person anywhere who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can." -- Henry Ford
27. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all." -- Helen Keller
28. "You only regret that which you don't do...whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." -- Goethe
29. "Do or do not. There is no try." -- Yoda
30. "The price of not following your dream is the same as paying for it." -- Paulo Coelho
31. "Plan for gradual improvements, not spectacular leaps...a slow and steady stream of water will, in time, erode the hardest rock." -- author unknown
32. "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." -- Sydney J. Harris
33. "The secret of success if to do the common duty uncommonly well." -- John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
34. "The best time for planning a book is while doing the dishes." -- Agatha Christie
35. "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." -- John F. Kennedy
36. "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." -- John Ruskin
37. "Many things are clarified only with the passage of time." -- Ansel Adams
38. "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." -- Henry Ford
39. "Eighty percent of success is showing up." -- Woody Allen
40. "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -- Lily Tomlin
41. "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them." -- Thoreau
42. "You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her." -- Sir Winston Churchill
43. "The sun will set without thy assistance." -- The Talmud
44. "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." -- Thomas Edison
45. "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth." -- Freud
46. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." -- Japanese proverb
47. "Never give up. Never, never, never, never." -- Sir Winston Churchill
48. "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
49. "Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there." -- David Zucker
50. "The real secret of success is enthusiasm." -- Walter Chrysler
51. "We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connectd by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results." -- Herman Melville
52. "Medicine, law, business, and engineering: these are noble pursuits necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for." -- Mr. Keating in Dead Poets' Society
53. "Everywhere you trip is where the treasure lies." -- Norman Lear
54. "Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person to person." -- Mother Teresa
55. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the tradewinds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -- Mark Twain
56. "The trouble is, if you don't risk anything you risk even more." -- Erica Jong
57. "A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things in a vision, a dream of the whole thing." -- Charles Schwab
58. "If A is success in life, then A equals X + Y + Z. Work is X, Y is play, and Z is keeping your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein
59. "I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I've lived as I believe." --Whitney Houston
60. �It is never too late to be what you might have been.� -- George Eliot
61. �Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake.� -- Thoreau
62. To live is to slowly be born.� -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
63. �The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, but are felt in the heart.� �- Helen Keller
64. �At some point in my life, I decided, rightly or wrongly, that there are many situations in this life that I can�t do much about � acts of terrorism, feelings of nationalistic prejudice, cold war, etc. � so what I should do is concentrate on the situations that my energy can affect.� �- Jim Henson
65. "Your talent is Go'd gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." -- Leo Buscaglia
66. "The best way to success is to discover what you love and offer it to others." -- Oprah Winfrey
67. "Dream big - dream very big. Work hard -- work very hard." -- Oprah Winfrey
68. "Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity." -- Gilda Radner
69. �You won't know where you're going if you're always looking back.� �- anonymous
70. "We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours." -- Dag Hammarskjold
71. "Committing to what is right, what is just, and what is good will bring you fulfillment." -- Coretta Scott King
72. �The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world�s deep hunger meet.� �- Frederick Buechner
73. �Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.� -� Isaac Disraeli
74. "Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.. When there's love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzgerald
75. �A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.� -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery