At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
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
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"
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
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"
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, ‘Make Me Feel Important.’ Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.”
– Mary Kay Ash
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
