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950 Inspirational Success At A Young Age Quotes (2023)

1. Predicting rain doesn't count, building the ark does.


2. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”


3. “A teacher is a compass that activates the magnets of curiosity, knowledge and wisdom in the pupils.” ~ Ever Garrison


4. “Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.”


5. “I’m blessed, I’m successful, I’m still alive.” -Young Dolph


6. “It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” – Andy Rooney


7. “Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.” — William Arthur Ward


8. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”


9. “The hardest part about being an entrepreneur is that you’ll fail ten times for every success.”– Adam Horwitz, Mobile Monopoly


10. “You always pass failure on the way to success.” – Mickey Rooney


11. “As you get older, you don’t get wiser. You get irritable.” – Doris Lessing


12. We are always the same age inside. - Gertrude Stein


13. “When personal agendas become more important than the team and the overarching mission’s success, performance suffers, and failure ensues” -Jocko Willink.


14. “We learn to do something by doing it. There is no other way.” ~ John Holt


15. “There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children.” ~ Kofi Annan


16. For me, success is not about the wins and losses. It's about helping these young fellas be the best versions of themselves on and off the field.


17. “The moment I decided to follow instead of lead, I discovered the joys of becoming part of a small child’s world.” ~ Janet Gonzalez-Mena


18. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.”


19. The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action. — Alexander Graham Bell


20. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.” Mark Twain


21. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.”


22. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”– Dale Carnegie


23. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.”


24. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”– John F. Kennedy


25. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.” – Mark Twain


26. “The art of teaching lies in knowing the balance between structure and flow, telling and asking, speaking and silence.” ~ Vince Gowmon


27. “The real magic wand is the child’s own mind.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset


28. “Be sure that in your educating you are not manufacturing obedient citizens, but rather unleashing powerful, creative souls.” ~ Vince Gowmon


29. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.” – Napoleon Hill


30. “The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.” — Antisthenes


31. “Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”


32. “You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” – Oprah Winfrey


33. “I don’t look my age. I don’t feel my age and I don’t act my age. To me age is just a number.” – Joan Collins


34. “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”


35. “You cannot make people learn. You can only provide the right conditions for learning to happen.” ~ Vince Gowmon


36. “Watch, listen, and learn. You can’t know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.”


37. “I am not young enough to know everything.” – Oscar Wilde


38. “The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.”


39. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”


40. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” –Zig Ziglar


41. “Old age ain’t no place for sissies.” – Bette Davis


42. “Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.”


43. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles! - Ralph Waldo Emerson


44. The stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient.


45. “To be successful online, you have to be nimble and evolve where the opportunities are. You have to layer revenue streams.”


46. “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” —B.B. King


47. ”You are never too old to become younger!” – Mae West


48. “In this modern world where activity is stressed to the point of mania, quietness as a childhood need is too often overlooked.” ~ Margaret Wise Brown


49. “Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.” – Boyd K. Packer


50. “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”


51. “Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don’t want to run out of gas on your trip, but you’re not doing a tour of gas stations.”


52. “A man who asks is a fool for five minutes. A man who never asks is a fool for life.” — Chinese Proverb


53. It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. — Albert Einstein, physicist


54. “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.”


55. “Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.”


56. “Teaching is learning. They are inseparable. The humility of a teacher is born when this is realized. Only then does teaching really begin.” ~ Vince Gowmon


57. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?” Robert Schuller


58. “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” – George Sheehan


59. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”


60. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”


61. “Children cannot bounce off the walls if we take away the walls.” ~ Erin Kenny


62. “Kids deserve the right to think that they can change the world.” ~ Lois Lowry


63. “A word after a word after a word is power.”


64. Walt Disney: “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”


65. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” —Malcolm X


66. “Schooling prepares children for jobs, yet getting a job is not what life is about. Life exists in the space between all we deem important.” ~ Vince Gowmon


67. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.”– Ryan Freitas, co-founder About.me


68. “Age is not important unless you’re a cheese.” Helen Hayes


69. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you who you’ll turn out to be.


70. “Smile and let everyone know that today, you’re a lot stronger than you were yesterday.”


71. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other. — Walter Elliot, British politician


72. Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.


73. “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


74. “Old age is no place for sissies.” Bette Davis


75. “Respect the young and chastise your elders. It’s about time the world was set aright.” – Vera Nazarian


76. “Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.” ― Lara Adrian


77. Steve Martin: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”


78. “There are lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.”


79. “Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play.” ~ Magda Gerber


80. “Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.” Louis Kronenberger


81. “You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne


82. “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”


83. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” –Thomas Jefferson


84. “It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.” — Claude Bernard


85. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” — Leo Buscaglia


86. “If it hasn’t been in the hand and body, it can’t be in the brain.” ~ Bev Bos


87. “Success is defined in units of fun. It’s all about being happy.” – Jake Nickell, Threadless


88. “Have the end in mind and every day make sure you’re working towards it.” – Ryan Allis, co-founder and CEO iContact


89. “I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.”


90. “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” – Albert Einstein


91. “The things we fear the most in organizations- fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances – are the primary sources of creativity.”


92. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.” – Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and former CEO


93. “Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” – Lisa Stone, BlogHer co-founder and CEO


94. “Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.”


95. “Learning is alive when experiential, relevant and joyful. It is all but dead when limited to disassociated rationale and sedentariness.” ~ Vince Gowmon


96. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”


97. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”


98. Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing.


99. “Our children should be properly introduced to the world in which they live.” ~ Thomas Berry


100. “Age swallows our childhood.” – Terri Guillemets


101. “Any time is a good time to start a company.” – Ron Conway, noted start-up investor, founder of SV Angel


102. “It is always the start that requires the greatest effort.”– James Penney, founder and CEO J.C. Penny


103. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”– Henry Ford, Founder Ford Motor Company


104. “Don’t educate a child to become something or someone, educate to help them explore and celebrate who they already are.” ~ Vince Gowmon


105. “Teachers can open the door, but you must enter it yourself.” —Chinese proverb


106. We may live in an age of instant messaging, instant gratification and Instagram, but there is no way to short circuit the path to success. —Tory Burch


107. “If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.”


108. “Youth is wasted on the young.” George Bernard Shaw


109. “When we deny children play, we are denying them the right to understand the world.” ~ Erika & Nicholas Christakis


110. “Genius is 10% inspiration, 90% perspiration.” —Thomas Edison


111. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe


112. “Openly share and talk to people about your idea. Use their lack of interest or doubt to fuel your motivation to make it happen.”


113. “I believe that to teach them effectively you must touch their hearts long before you begin to teach their minds” ~ Vicki Savini, from Ignite The Light


114. “Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”


115. “Kids don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.” ~ Jim Henson


116. “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” — Winston Churchill


117. “Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.” Jonathan Swift


118. “Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” ~ Joseph Chilton Pearce, Contemporary American scholar


119. “Always deliver more than expected.” – Larry Page, Co-Founder, Google


120. “Skill is only developed by hours and hours of work.”


121. “If you are willing to do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will be paid to do more than you do.” Anonymous


122. “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.” —Jennifer Dukes Lee


123. “Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.”


124. “I’m not afraid of aging.” – Shelley Duvall


125. “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.”


126. “The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.” — B.B. King


127. Success in investing doesn't correlate with IQ ... what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.


128. “Everything is a learning experience.” — Angus T. Jones


129. “The most important attitude that can be found is the desire to go on learning.” — John Dewey


130. “A hard thing is done by figuring out how to start.”– Rand Fishkin, SEOmoz


131. “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.”


132. “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you figure out why.”


133. “My tombstone? I’m thinking something along the lines of, ‘Geez, he was just here a minute ago.'” George Carlin


134. “A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes


135. “The good thing about being old is not being young.” – Stephen Richards


136. “I never dreamed about success. I worked for it.” – Estee Lauder


137. “If you haven’t turned rebel by twenty you’ve got no heart; if you haven’t turned establishment by thirty you’ve got no brains!” Kevin Spacey


138. “Fail often so you can succeed sooner.”


139. “Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.” — Leonardo da Vinci


140. “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”


141. Unknown: “You have to believe it before you see it.”


142. “The more you teach / push those things that can be measured, the more kids will grow up feeling like they don’t measure up.” ~ Vince Gowmon


143. “The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason—simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales.”


144. “The next big thing is the one that makes the last big thing usable.”


145. “Success comes from going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill


146. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” ~ Bob Talbert


147. “I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!”


148. “Use your youth to do something useful or unique or ultimate.”


149. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”


150. “Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.” – C.S. Lewis


151. “Success is defined in units of fun. It’s all about being happy.”


152. “Teaching children about the natural world should be treated as one of the most important events in their lives.” ~ Thomas Berry


153. “Speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest."


154. “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.”


155. “You have an idea, a dream? Go for it, don’t settle and don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t – opportunity is everywhere.” – Chrissy Sgourakis


156. “The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.”


157. “Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”- Muhammad Ali


158. “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ~ Albert Einstein


159. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”– Reid Hoffman, co-founder LinkedIn


160. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”– Catherine Cook, MyYearbook


161. “In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.” – Sid Caesar, entertainer


162. “Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.”-Howard Schultz, Starbucks CEO


163. “You’re never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.”


164. “In my dreams, I never have an age”


165. “Success doesn’t come to you, you’ve got to go to it.” – Marva Collins


166. There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.


167. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” — John F. Kennedy


168. “Old age is a shipwreck.” Charles de Gaulle


169. Diversification is protection against ignorance. It makes little sense if you know what you are doing.


170. “The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” — Herbert Spencer


171. “When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.”


172. “Get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.”


173. “Know that there is always going to be sacrifice. My best advice for young professionals is to remember to enjoy the ride.” – Gidon Gabbay


174. “If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not making decisions.”


175. If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all. — Michelangelo, sculptor and painter


176. “It’s easy to grow old if you haven’t grown up.” – John Hively


177. “As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” Andrew Carnegie


178. Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young. — Fred Astaire


179. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”


180. What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.


181. “To take children seriously is to value them for who they are right now rather than adults-in-the-making.” ~ Alfie Kohn


182. “The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child’s own natural desire to learn.” ~ Maria Montessori


183. “Confidence comes not from always being right, but from not fearing to be wrong.” – Peter T. Mcintyre, Painter and Author


184. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein


185. “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost


186. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”– Winston Churchill


187. “Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden


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


189. “Don't feel bad if your youth cannot be joyful, but at least make it useful.”


190. “Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.”


191. “A poorly implemented feature hurts more than not having it at all.”


192. “Everything’s always ending. But everything’s always beginning, too.”


193. “That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.” — Doris Lessing


194. “With children, it is the joint moments of delight that build the social brain.” ~ Mariah Moser


195. “To give a child a mechanical toy is equivalent to playing for him” ~ Walter Wood


196. “The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.” – Mark Twain


197. “We become what we think about most of the time, and that’s the strangest secret.” Earl Nightingale


198. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda. It all comes down to what you do today.”


199. “As I started getting older, I realized, ‘I’m so happy!’ I didn’t expect this! I wasn’t happy when I was young.’” – Jane Fonda


200. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.”


201. …not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.


202. “You don’t remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.” ~ Lenore Skenazy


203. “I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” –James Broughton


204. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”


205. Basically, when you get to my age, you'll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.


206. “Practice isn’t the thing you do once your good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell


207. “People ask, ‘What’s the best role you’ve ever played?’ The next one.” Kevin Kline


208. “My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.”


209. “Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”


210. “The teacher and the taught create the teaching.” ~ Ancient Eastern saying


211. “Children learn as they play. Most importantly, in play children learn how to learn. ” ~ O. Fred Donaldson


212. “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” — Benjamin Franklin


213. “He who laughs most, learns best.” — John Cleese


214. “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” –George Burns


215. “If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”– Claude McDonald


216. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.” — Richard Branson


217. “In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield."


218. “Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.” Larry Winget


219. “I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. Francis Bacon The surest sign of age is loneliness.” Annie Dillard


220. “Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.”


221. “Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.” Dorothy Canfield Fisher , Young age quotes


222. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you’re still thinking about yesterday.”


223. “We are raised in a culture that values expertise over exploration.” ~ Nina Wise


224. Laughter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. - Walt Disney


225. Robert H. Schuller: “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”


226. “Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.” —Mason Cooley


227. “Children don’t know how to ask for what they don’t know they need. Their asking comes in the form of behaviour.” ~ Bonnie Harris


228. “One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.” ~ Carl Jung


229. “Children learn how to make good decisions by making decisions, not by following directions.” ~Alfie Kohn


230. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Herman Cain


231. The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ― Epicurus, Greek philosopher


232. We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.


233. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John C. Maxwell


234. “Learning is not a spectator sport.” ~ D. Blocher


235. “The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.” ~ Roald Dahl


236. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas A. Edison


237. “Don’t play games that you don’t understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.”


238. “Even from a very early age, I knew I didn’t want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.” – Nicole Kidman


239. Never invest in a business you cannot understand.


240. “Wisdom…. comes not from age, but from education and learning.”


241. “Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don’t wish it were easier; wish you were better.” Jim Rohn


242. “Success is when you start physically living those dreams that give you giddy goosebumps. And with that comes finding your happy place.” – Kat Stefankiewicz


243. “The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.” Mark Caine


244. “Age does not matter if the matter does not age.” – Carlos P. Romulo


245. “It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults.” ~ F. Douglas


246. If you're in the luckiest 1% of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.


247. “If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down.”


248. “Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein


249. I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson, American Founding Father


250. “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” –Jim Ryun


251. “The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” – Madeleine L’Engle


252. “Play is the shortest route between children and their creative calling.” ~ Vince Gowmon


253. “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” –Pope John XXIII


254. “The secret in education lies in respecting the student.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


255. “Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.”


256. “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”


257. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young”- Fred Astaire


258. “Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood, for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child’s soul.” ~ Friedrich Froebel


259. “What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.” Jean-Paul


260. “Great products sell themselves.”


261. “The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes."


262. “Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.” Francis Bacon


263. “An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it."


264. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln


265. “Asking kids to meet target on standardized tests is like making them meet a sales quota. Our kids are not commodities.” ~ K.L. Nielsen


266. “I’m happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.” James Broughton


267. Most people get interested in stocks when everyone else is. The time to get interested is when no one else is. You can't buy what is popular and do well.


268. Wilson Luna, author and international business adviser


269. “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” —Beverly Stills


270. Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable. — Coco Chanel, fashion designer


271. “There’s no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.”


272. Unknown: “Life’s too short to learn from your own mistakes. So learn from others”


273. “Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” — Anthony J. D’Angelo


274. “The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.” ~ Rudolf Steiner


275. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” – Karl Lagerfeld


276. The investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.


277. “Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” —John Wooden


278. “I think I was very naïve early on, but that also meant I didn’t know what couldn’t be done.”


279. “It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” ~Eugene Ionesco


280. Ageing is just another word for living. - Cindy Joseph


281. “Education without application is just entertainment.” — Tim Sanders


282. “Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec


283. If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist, and author


284. “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt


285. “We turn not older with years, but newer every day.”


286. “Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.”– Guy Kawasaki, co-founder Alltop


287. “A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” ~ Henry Adams


288. “There is only one way not to waste your life, and it is to attain wisdom at a young age!”


289. Mi Oon: “We all have things we must do that we don’t really care to do and things we must do that we don’t mind doing, then there’s the goofing off.”


290. Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it. — Charles R. Swindoll, author and educator


291. Age is something that doesn't matter... unless you are a cheese! - Billie Burke


292. “Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.”


293. One day you will look back and see that all along you were blooming. - Morgan Harper Nichols


294. “You shouldn’t focus on why you can’t do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.”


295. “When you teach a child something, you take away forever the chance for him to discover it himself.” ~ John Piaget


296. “I don’t have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out.”


297. Money is not everything. Make sure you earn a lot before speaking such nonsense.


298. “You see, one of the best things about reading is that you’ll always have something to think about when you’re not reading.”


299. “Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.”


300. “Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me, and be my friend.” ~ Albert Camus


301. “I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.”


302. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” – Ted Turner, TBS


303. “If we want children to become creative leaders then we must learn to follow their lead at an early age.” ~ Vince Gowmon


304. Oprah Winfrey: “Don’t worry about being successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”


305. Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. — Maya Angelou, American poet, and civil rights activist


306. “Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you.”


307. “Success is not in what you have, but who you are.”– Bo Bennett, founder eBookit.com


308. “I think I was very naïve early on, but that also meant I didn’t know what couldn’t be done.”– Matt Mickiewicz, 99 Designs


309. Bo Schembechler: “The Team! The Team! The Team!”


310. A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn. — Helen Keller, author, disability rights advocate, political activist


311. “No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.” — Voltaire


312. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Picasso


313. “Structure is akin to a fence surrounding a playground. While it is needed, if it is too close, it will stifle exploration and learning.” ~ Vince Gowmon


314. “If the literature we are reading does not wake us, why then do we read it? A literary work must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”


315. “You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.”


316. “I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars — I look for 1-foot bars that I can step over.”


317. “Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” Arthur Schopenhauer


318. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” – John Maxwell


319. “Age isn’t how old you are but how old you feel.” ― Gabriel Garcia Marquez


320. “If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.” Thomas J. Watson


321. “You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” George Burns


322. If you aren't thinking about owning a stock for 10 years, don't even think about owning it for 10 minutes.


323. “I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.” Martha Stewart


324. “I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.” – Susan Sarandon


325. “I think people would live a bit longer if they didn’t know how old they were. Age puts restrictions on things.” – Karl Pilkington


326. Half of all coin-flippers will win their first toss; none of those winners has an expectation of profit if he continues to play the game.”


327. “He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.” —Chinese proverb


328. “Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman


329. “If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.” James Cameron


330. “Never let the fear of striking out stop you from playing the game.” —Babe Ruth


331. “The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.”


332. “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert F. Kennedy


333. “A man growing old becomes a child again.” Sophocles


334. “Learn from yesterday. Live for today. Hope for tomorrow.” –Albert Einstein


335. “Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.” ~ Joseph Cornell


336. When you do more than you’ paid for, eventually you’ll be paid for more than you do. — Zig Ziglar, author and motivational speaker


337. “I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.” Lauren Bacall


338. “Your reputation is more important than your paycheck, and your integrity is worth more than your career.”


339. “One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.” — Frank Herbert


340. “If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” Jim Rohn


341. The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress. — Dan Waldschmidt, business strategist


342. “To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it.”


343. “Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.” Mark Twain


344. Warren Buffett: “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”


345. “You can’t ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.”


346. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ―Eleanor Roosevelt


347. “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” Jim Rohn


348. “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” – Oscar Wilde


349. He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. — Muhammad Ali, Black professional boxer and activist


350. “Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” Pope John XXIII


351. “You have to be odd to be No.1.” —Dr. Seuss


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


353. “Always deliver more than expected.”


354. “How blest is he who crowns in shades like these: A youth of labor with an age of ease!” ― Oliver Goldsmith


355. “Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life.”


356. “When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.” Victor Hugo


357. “Teaching is not about answering questions but about raising questions – opening doors for them in places that they could not imagine.” ~ Yawar Baig


358. “What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.” ~ Mother Teresa


359. “Building and hanging on to an audience is the biggest role of social media.”


360. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”-Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO Amazon


361. “If you start with nothing and end up with nothing, there’s nothing lost.”– Michael Dunlop, Income Diary


362. “I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”


363. “If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.” – Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn co-founder and venture capitalist


364. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ William Butler Yeats


365. “The most dangerous poison is the feeling of achievement. The antidote is to every evening think what can be done better tomorrow”


366. “Surrounding myself with beautiful women keeps me young.” Hugh Hefner


367. “You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.”


368. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”


369. “Don’t make decisions based on fear.”


370. American business -- and consequently a basket of stocks -- is virtually certain to be worth far more in the years ahead.


371. “As men get older, the toys get more expensive.” Marvin Davis


372. “Life is all but a dream we will soon wake up to and be 7 years old again.” – Kira Jeffries


373. “You don’t stop laughing because you grow older. You grow older because you stop laughing.” Maurice Chevalier


374. “Age is no guarantee of maturity.” – Lawana Blackwell


375. “Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.”


376. “Middle age is youth without levity and age without decay.” Doris Day


377. Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook


378. “You know you’re old when you’re watching ‘Karate Kid’ and you realize you’re more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.” – Hayley Linfield


379. “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.” Victor Hugo


380. John A. Shedd: “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”


381. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. When promised quick profits, respond with a quick no."


382. “Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.” – Paulo Coelho


383. “Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.”


384. “It’s not about how many years of experience you have. It’s about the quality of your years of experience.”


385. “If you trust play, you will not have to control your child’s development as much. Play will raise the child in ways you can never imagine.” ~ Vince Gowmon


386. “A grownup is a child with layers on.” Woody Harrelson


387. “Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” — Alan Moore


388. “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.” ~ Angela Schwindt


389. “If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ~ Albert Einstein


390. “Remember to celebrate milestones as you prepare for the road ahead.” – Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa


391. “The work of education is divided between the teacher and the environment.” ~ Maria Montessori


392. Unknown: “Never underestimate the power of a t-shirt.”


393. “All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.” Michael John Bobak


394. “How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.” – Yvon Chouinard, founder Patagonia


395. “One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it’s such a nice change from being young.” – William Feather


396. Unknown: “Remember why you started.”


397. “Rather than books and lectures, nature itself is children’s best teacher.” ~ Coffey


398. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. — Arthur Ashe, tennis player


399. “Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.” – Dale Carnegie, author and motivational speaker


400. “An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”


401. If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. — Steve Jobs, co-Founder of Apple Inc.


402. “All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants” ~ J.W. Gardner


403. “Over-deliver every time.”


404. “These people have learned not from books, but in the fields, in the wood, on the river bank.” ~ Anton Chekhov


405. “Choose something unique.”


406. “Classroom management is not about having the right rules… it’s about having the right relationships.” ~ @SteeleThoughts


407. “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin


408. “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill


409. “A little progress each day adds up to big results.”


410. Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. - John Lennon


411. Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional! - Walt Disney


412. “Recipes tell you nothing. Learning techniques is the key.” — Tom Colicchio


413. “Get out of your comfort zone and explore your potential.” – Kimmy Xiao


414. “I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page.”


415. “Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.” John Adams


416. “The most wasted of days is one without laughter.”


417. “Everything we do as teachers must ensure that the child’s inherent desire to learn is kept alive.” ~ Robert John Meehan


418. “No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.” – Ernest Hemingway


419. “I believe photos is one of the underlying things in every social network that becomes successful.”


420. “I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO


421. “Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”


422. Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.


423. The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.


424. “If you are willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you.” — Anonymous


425. “A lamp can only light another lamp when it continues to burn in its own flame.”


426. “When one teaches, two learn.” ~ Robert Heinlein


427. “Movement is the door to learning.” ~ Paul E. Dennison


428. “When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”


429. “Don’t be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don’t let the bastards get you down.”


430. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney, founder of Walt Disney World


431. “The more that you read, the more things you will know, the more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”


432. “I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one.”


433. “As with everything else about children’s behavior, there’s nothing like a good role model. If you value play, your child will, too.” ~ Madeline Levine


434. “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”


435. Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.


436. “Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company”– Booker T. Washington


437. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” — Dr. Seuss


438. “You may only succeed if you desire succeeding; you may only fail if you do not mind failing.” Philippos


439. “Every single person I know who is successful at what they do is successful because they love doing it.”


440. “It’s never too late—never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”


441. “The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.” — Mortimer Adler


442. “Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”


443. “Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you.” – Ravensara Noite


444. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” – Vince Lombardi


445. “The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.”


446. “I shouldn’t have to defend play for children any more than I should have to defend their eating, sleeping, and breathing.” ~ Rae Pica


447. It's better to have a partial interest in the Hope diamond than to own all of a rhinestone.


448. Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us. — Susan L. Taylor, journalist


449. “Whether you think you can, or think you can’t — you’re right.”


450. “You don’t understand anything until you learn it more than one way.” — Marvin Minsky


451. “Action is the fundamental key to success.” – Pablo Picasso


452. “There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”


453. “Hire character. Train skill.”


454. “Anything you can teach in an indoor classroom can be taught outdoors, often in ways that are more enjoyable for children.” ~ Cathy James


455. “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.” John Maxwell


456. “Children don’t need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.” ~ Emma Thompson


457. “I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.”


458. “The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop quotes


459. “Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.”


460. “He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.” — Confucius


461. “Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore


462. “You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”


463. “Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw


464. “Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.”


465. “I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.”


466. “A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.”


467. “Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.”


468. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” Stephen Covey


469. “Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Dylan Thomas


470. I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.


471. “High expectations are the key to everything.” – Sam Walton, Walmart founder


472. “The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.” Oscar Wilde


473. “Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.” — Mark Twain


474. “In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”


475. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” —Abraham Lincoln


476. “Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world.”


477. “Even if you don’t have the perfect idea to begin with, you can likely adapt.” –Victoria Ransom, Wildfire Interactive co-founder


478. “A multitude of books distracts the mind.”


479. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” — Mahatma Gandhi


480. “Success for us means continued growth and an ongoing sense of fulfillment in everything we do.” – rock-it promotions


481. “Anything can be done, as long as you truly believe it.”– Ashley Qualls, WhateverLife


482. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.”


483. “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”


484. “I’m not a overnight success. I’m a workaholic.”-Young Dolph


485. “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.” Bruce Lee


486. Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Our chief want in life, is someone who shall make us do what we can. This is the service of a friend. With him, we are easily great.”


487. “If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.” — Howard Gardner


488. “Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.”


489. “Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence.” Lisa M. Amos


490. “The earlier you start, the more time you have to mess up.”– Emil Motycka, Motycka Enterprises


491. You know… you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.


492. “Everything started as nothing.”


493. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”


494. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth, baseball legend


495. “Every day, in a 100 small ways, our children ask, ‘Do you hear me? Do you see me? Do I matter?’ Their behavior often reflects our response.” ~ L.R. Knost


496. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”– Drew Houston, co-founder and CEO Dropbox


497. “If we want children to play BIG in the world, then let’s let them play in small ways to start.” ~ Vince Gowmon


498. The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.


499. “One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.” Malcolm Muggeridge


500. When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients.


501. “Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardour and attended with diligence.” — Abigail Adams


502. “The man who does not read books has no advantage over the one who cannot read them.” —Mark Twain


503. “The best way to preserve a child’s vision is to let them see things their way rather than yours.” Jacob Liberman, Wisdom from an Empty Mind


504. Jack Ma: “In carrying out e-commerce, the most important thing is to keep doing what you are doing right now with passion, to keep it up.”


505. “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein


506. “Nothing is impossible. Even the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’”


507. “No. I can survive well enough on my own – if given the proper reading material.”


508. “Success isn’t about how much money you make. It’s about the difference you make in people’s lives.” – Michelle Obama


509. “It hurts your business.” (talking about ‘ego’)


510. “The home is the child’s first school, the parent is the child’s first teacher, and reading is the child’s first subject.”


511. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”


512. “Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.”


513. “Be open to growth. When people stop giving you feedback, start to worry.” – Amanda Pouchot, Entrepreneur


514. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. — Tim Notke, basketball coach


515. “Success is about being able to shut out all the noise in life and honestly listen to yourself.” – Ben Barry


516. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” — Fred Astaire


517. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine―and shadows will fall behind you.”


518. “I never lose. Either I win or learn.”


519. “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” ~ Maya Angelou


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


521. “Today a reader. Tomorrow a leader.” –Anonymous


522. “It’s more effective to do something valuable than to hope a logo or name will say it for you.”


523. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” Henry Ford


524. There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. — Colin Powell, first Black Secretary of State


525. “Whenever you see a successful person, you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.” Vaibhav Shah


526. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — W.B. Yeats


527. “Find something you love and do it better than everyone else.”– Gurbaksh Chahal, RadiumOne


528. “True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” Kurt Vonnegut


529. “Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.” –George Sand


530. “The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect”


531. “It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.”– Scott Belsky, co-founder Behance


532. “I think not focusing on money makes you sane because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.”


533. “If Google teaches you anything, it’s that small ideas can be big.”


534. “To be in your children’s memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today.” ~ Anonymous


535. The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.


536. “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” T. Harv Eker


537. “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”


538. Donald Trump, chairman of The Trump Organization, the Trump Plaza Associates, LLC, and the Trump Atlantic City Associates


539. Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.


540. “Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.”


541. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.”


542. He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. — Nietzsche, philosopher


543. “Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.”


544. “The best revenge is massive success.” Frank Sinatra


545. “Learning is synthesizing seemingly divergent ideas and data.” — Terry Heick


546. “I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.”– Jack Welch, chairman and CEO General Electric


547. “When your youth is about to enter in old age it shouldn't wonder, what happened? it must say, well done.”


548. “Children need the freedom and time to play. Play is not a luxury. Play is a necessity.” ~ Kay Redfield Jamison


549. “Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt


550. “successful people make right decisions early and manage those decisions daily.”


551. Walt Disney: “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.”


552. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.” –Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder


553. “You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and falling over.”


554. Great companies are built in the office, with hard work put in by a team. — Emily Chang


555. Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been. - Jimmy Buffet


556. “The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” — Alvin Toffler


557. Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies.


558. “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” – Napoleon Hill


559. “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”


560. “Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee


561. “Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” ~ Robert Fulghum


562. “If everything was perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow.” – Beyoncé


563. “Rarely have I seen a situation where doing less than the other guy is a good strategy.” Jimmy Spithill


564. “If you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.”– Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook


565. “Success comes in cans; failure in can’ts” – Wilfred Peterson


566. In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.


567. “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” — Sydney J. Harris


568. I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.


569. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” John C. Maxwell


570. “We are always the same age inside.” Gertrude Stein


571. “The only thing worse than starting something and failing… is not starting something.”–Seth Godin, founder Squidoo


572. “Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.” Baltasar


573. Without labor, nothing prospers. — Sophocles


574. “The soul is healed by being with children.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky


575. Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.


576. “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.” – Drew Houston, Dropbox co-founder and CEO


577. “Stop trying to turn children into someone they are not. Instead, let them unfold into who no human can imagine them to be.” ~ Vince Gowmon


578. “The keys to life are running and reading.”


579. “Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.” Albert Camus