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

– Zig Ziglar

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”

– E.B. White

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

– Marcel Proust

Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

– Carl Rogers

Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”

– J.K. Rowling

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

– Marcel Proust

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”

– Ray Bradbury

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”

– Magical

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”

– General Omar Bradley

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

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

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”

– Francesca Reigle

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”

– Edgar W. Howe

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

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

– Bruce Lee

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

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 good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”

– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame

Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”

– Victor Hugo

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

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”

– Charles R. Swindoll

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

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”

– Lord Chesterfield

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”

– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies

Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”

– Basil King

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”

– Nelson Mandela

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
 what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”

– John F. Kennedy

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

A man without a smiling face
 should not open a shop.”

– Chinese Proverb

No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”

– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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

– Steve Jobs

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

– Winston Churchill

Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”

– Martin Luther King Jr.

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

– Joseph Cambell

I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”

– John D. Rockefeller

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

– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook

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

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”

– Barack Obama