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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
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 good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
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
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
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
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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
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
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
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
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
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"
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
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
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"
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
