If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
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"
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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 important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
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
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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"
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
