They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Almost anyone can start a community, but it takes real talent and commitment to get people to show up and keep coming back.”
– Andy Sernovitz
Let us seize the day and the opportunity and strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.”
– W.E.B. Du Bois
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
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
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?”
– Magical
But all the while I was alone, the past was close behind, I seen a lot of women, but she never escaped my mind, and I just grew, tangled up in blue.”
– Bob Dylan
Some things are destined to be—it just takes us a couple of tries
to get there.”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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
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
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
– Voltaire
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Many people prefer to play it safe when it comes to business matters. Are you willing to take risks in the pursuit of entrepreneurial success?”
– Steven Schussler
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"
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”
– Albert Einstein
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
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
Passion makes perfect.”
– Eugene Biro
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
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
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
Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
– Eckhart Tolle
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
– Martha Beck
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 can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
– Noela Evans
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
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
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
