There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
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
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
This is the age when magical technologies make more and more radically fun ideas plausible, even easy. You’re only limited by your creativity.”
– Martha Beck
When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
– Audre Lorde
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
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
You don’t love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand.”
– L.J. Smith
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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 person who makes a success of living is the one who see his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
– Cecil B. DeMille
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
“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.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.”
– Martha Beck, from "Leaving the Saints"
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
Treat the attainment of happiness in the same way an entrepreneur would approach building a business — with a vision, plan, goals, and a systematic approach.”
– Ted Leonsis
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
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
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
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
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams, for when dreams go, life is a barren field frozen with snow.”
– Langston Hughes
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
