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We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”

– Winston Churchill

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

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity 
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”

– Indira Ghandi

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

– William Butler Yeats

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

– Bruce Lee

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

– Henry David Thoreau

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

Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”

– Peter F. Drucker

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”

– Jesse Jackson

The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”

– Martha Beck

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"

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

– Leo Jozef Suenens

Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”

– The Dalai Lama

Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”

– Martha Beck

‎Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”

– Booker T. Washington

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”

– Anthony Trollope

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice

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

Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”

– Goldie Hawn

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

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”

– Martha Beck

Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”

– Optimism rules

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

I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”

– Thomas Edison

Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”

– Oscar Wilde

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”

– Robert H. Schuller

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”

– Steve Jobs

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”

– Richard Dumb

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”

– Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”

– Byron Katie

You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

– Winston Churchill

The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”

– Muhammad Yunus

Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”

– Steven Schussler

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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

Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

– Andrew Carnegie

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