Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Why am I whispering when I have something to say?”
– Eve Ensler
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
You may ask me for anything you like except time.”
– Napoleon
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
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
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
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
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.”
– Douglas Coupland
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
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
The follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
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 warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
When I was younger I thought success was being a star, driving nice cars, having groupies. But today I think the most important thing is to live your life with integrity.
– Ellen DeGeneres
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
I was taught at a very young age that you can do whatever you want to, but you have to make it happen — not just talk about it.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Dalai Lama
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
– Robert Fritz
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
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"
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– Christopher Robin to Pooh
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
– Henry Miller
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
