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
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.”
– JFK
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
If it isn’t good, let it die. If it doesn’t die, make it good.”
– Ajahn Chah
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.”
– Henry David Thoreau
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
– Robert Frost
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
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
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
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
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
