Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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"
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
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
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
“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.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
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
