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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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"
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"
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"
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
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
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– Joseph Campbell
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
– Bill Cosby
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
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 world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
