It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
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
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
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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"
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.“
– Thomas Edison
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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"
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
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
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
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
