Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
– Albert Einstein
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
– Bob Dylan
Never never never never give up.”
– Winston Churchill
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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"
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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
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
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
