If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Change is a math formula. Change happens when the cost of the status quo is greater than the risk of change.”
– Alan Webber, author, "Rules of Thumb"
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
– Tao Te Ching
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
– E.B. White
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Do you have the desire to create something new; the strength of conviction to believe your creation will be successful, and the reservoir of energy necessary to thrust it into the marketplace?”
– Steven Schussler
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
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.”
– Thomas Carlyle
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
Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
– John Quincy Adams
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better.”
– Edgar W. Howe
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 true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.”
– Steve Jobs
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
Entrepreneurs are willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.”
– Victor Kiam
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
– Abraham Lincoln
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
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
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
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
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
If you want to be busy, keep trying to be perfect. If you want to be happy, focus on making a difference.”
– Lisa Earle McLeod
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
– Mary Oliver
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
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
He who wants to tear down a house must be prepared to rebuild it.”
– African Proverb
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
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
I’m not afraid of storms,
for I’m learning to sail my ship.”
– Louisa May Alcott
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
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
– Booker T. Washington
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
