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
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
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"
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
“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.
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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 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
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
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
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
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
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
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
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
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
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
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
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
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
