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
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it”
– Andrew Carnegie
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
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 people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
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
The world I believed in, back in my most innocent, uninformed, childish mind—is real.”
– Martha Beck
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
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.”
– Bruce Lee
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
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
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
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
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
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
– Christopher Morley
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
The great use of life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
– William James
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
Entrepreneurs willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.”
– Victor Kiam
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
As each woman realizes her power, she transforms the world.”
– Patrice Wynne, WomanSpirit Sourcebook
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
It is possible to fail in many ways…while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
– Aristotle
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
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
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
– Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
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
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
Anything not worth doing well is not worth doing.”
– Warren Buffett
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.”
– Helen Keller
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
– Arundhati Roy
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
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself—your own thinking coming back at you.”
– Byron Katie
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
