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
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
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.”
J. Kristnhamurti, The First and Last Freedom
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
Charles R. Swindoll
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
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
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"
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
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
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
Victor Hugo
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
Benjamin Franklin
Part of your destiny is to live in the zone of maximum satisfaction.”
Martha Beck
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”
Henry David Thoreau
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
William Butler Yeats
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
Sri Aurobindo
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth. Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.”
Noela Evans
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
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.
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
Ray Bradbury
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
Christopher Robin to Pooh
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
He who knows he has enough is rich.”
Tao Te Ching
If you were independently wealthy and never had to work a day in your life, would you still choose to spend your time attempting to become a successful entrepreneur?”
Steven Schussler
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
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
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Leonardo da Vinci
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Seneca
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
Chinese Proverb
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
Jim Butcher, White Night
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it.”
Voltaire
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Rogers
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
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
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which obstacles vanish.”
John Quincy Adams
Nobody talks about entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what nurtures creative thinking.”
Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
Edward Bulwer Lytton
The only dream worth having is to live while you’re alive and die only when you’re dead.”
Arundhati Roy
Do not say, ‘why were the former days better than these,’ for it is not from wisdom that you ask this.”
Ecclesiastes, 7:10
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
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
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