You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
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
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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"
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
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
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
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian 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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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"
Speaking more than one language is no longer just an asset in today’s job market; it is a requirement.”
– Tom Adams, CEO, Rosetta Stone
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
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!”
– Madam C.J. Walker
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
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
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
– Charles R. Swindoll
It is to no purpose to turn away from the real nature of the affair because the honor of its elements excites repugnance.
– Carl von Clausewitz, On War
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
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
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
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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"
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
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
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
My goal was to tell the life side of the story. We have become a nation of voyeurs that expect sensationalism, and that offends me.”
– Kathleen Jo Ryan
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”
– Mark Twain
