He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
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
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
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
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
Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
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"
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
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
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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
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’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
