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The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”

– Marcel Proust

Ripeness is all.”

– William Shakespeare

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"

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”

– Thomas Carlyle

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”

– A wisdomism

As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”

– Leo Jozef Suenens

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”

– Bruce Lee

Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”

– Steven Schussler

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

That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”

– J.G. Holland, novelist

He who knows he has enough is rich.”

– Tao Te Ching

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”

– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”

– Edward Bulwer Lytton

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

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

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

My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”

– Maureen Cook

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

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

– Leonardo da Vinci

Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”

– Groucho Marx

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

Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

If people like you they’ll listen to you; if they trust you, they’ll do business with you.”

– Zig Ziglar

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”

– Noela Evans

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

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 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 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

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

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”

– Albert Schweitzer

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

They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”

– Hindu Proverb

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”

– Marcel Proust

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

– William Butler Yeats

If you would create something,
 you must be something.”

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”

– Mary Oliver

What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”

– Jim Butcher, White Night

It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”

– Aristotle

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

The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”

– Joseph Cambell

I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”

– Michelle Sedas