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
The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
– Andrew Carnegie
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
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
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
Don’t follow, lead. Don’t copy, create. Don’t start, finish. Don’t sit still, move. Don’t fit in, stand out. Don’t sit quietly, speak up. (Not all the time, sure, but more often.)”
– Seth Godin
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.”
– Mary Jean Irion
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
Death is to lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.”
– Thomas Wolfe
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
– J.K. Rowling
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
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"
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
The music is all around us. All you have to do is listen.”
– August Rush
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
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"
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
– Steven Schussler
Remember that it’s okay to ask for help when you’re stumped, because sometimes you really can’t be expected to handle everything alone.”
– Martha Beck
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
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
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.”
– Sonia Croquette
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison
The dove descending breaks the air / With flame of inkandescent terror.”
– T.S. Eliott
