That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
– Jesse Jackson
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
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
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
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more.
If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.”
– Marilyn vos Savant
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them.”
– Henry David Thoreau
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
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
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
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
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 journey is the reward.”
– Greg Norman
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even that of president, says little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done, or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, to learn, and to achieve.”
– Barack Obama
We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
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
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
– Groucho Marx
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
How do you stay resilient? It’s about momentum. Like riding a bicycle. If you stop you fall over. So I keep pedaling.”
– Diane Lane
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
– John Quincy Adams
I always maintained that the greatest obstacle in life isn’t danger, it’s boredom. The battle against it is responsible for most of the events in the world — good or ill.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
