Education is an admirable thing to have, but it is well to remember that nothing worth knowing can be taught.”
– Oscar Wilde
When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”
– Audre Lorde
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
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"
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Remove those ‘I want you to like me’ stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good—on your mirror.”
– Susan Jeffers
The goal of Life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with nature.”
– Joseph Cambell
Women once had the goal of being Superwoman; I think most of us now simply strive to have a super day.”
– Author, Activist Lee Woodruff
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 wait for someone else to lead you to your right life; that privilege—and responsibility—is yours alone.”
– Martha Beck
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
Don’t follow your dreams. Chase them.”
– Richard Dumb
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
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"
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun.”
– John D. Rockefeller
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
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
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
