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