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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
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
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
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”
– Zig Ziglar
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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"
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
