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

– Arthur Rubinstein

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

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“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.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”

– Cecil B. DeMille

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

You don’t go into a field that requires cracking people’s heads open or operating on something as delicate as the spinal cord unless you are comfortable with taking risks.”

– Dr. Ben Carson

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

Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”

– Eckhart Tolle

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

– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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

– Edgar W. Howe

Don’t wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”

– Martha Beck

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

The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”

– Chinese proverb

‎No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”

– Charles Dickens

The journey is the reward.”

– Greg Norman

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

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

– Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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

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

– General Omar Bradley

To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”

– Anna Pavlova

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

– Steve Jobs

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

How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”

– Diane Lane

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

– Thomas Carlyle

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

– Lord Chesterfield

There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

– Leonard Cohen

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

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

– Noela Evans

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”

– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”

– Madam C.J. Walker

A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”

– Carlos Castaneda

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”

– Albert Einstein

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

Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”

– Annie Dillard

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

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

– Martin Luther King Jr.

Passion makes perfect.”

– Eugene Biro

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

– Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

– Aristotle

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

– Michelle Sedas

The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”

– August Rush

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

– Albert Schweitzer

Never cut what you can untie.”

– Joseph Joubert

Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”

– William Jennings Bryan