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
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
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
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
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
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.”
– Betty Smith
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
“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.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
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
4oz tequila + 1oz TripleSec + 2oz lime juice + 1oz simple syrup (sugar=water), 1 cup crushed ice. Shake + dance around the kitchen.
– Avenida Margarita
It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.”
– Alfred Adler
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
