In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working.”
– Suzy Welch
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
– J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it.“
– Roy Ash, co-founder of Litton Industries
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.”
– Anna Quindlen
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.“
– Thomas Edison
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity, be an honest and compassionate person, and contribute in some way.”
– Ellen DeGeneres
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”
– Dr. Ben Carson
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
