Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
There is little success where there is little laughter.”
– Andrew Carnegie
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.”
– Robert H. Schuller
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
Confidence is the most important thing you can teach someone… if you can teach them confidence, you don’t have to teach them anything else.”
– Vin Diesel
Who cares if my glass is half empty or half full; I still have something to drink.”
– Optimism rules
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"
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leon Joseph Suenens
A man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.”
– Chinese Proverb
We are not meant to resolve all contradictions, but to live with them and rise above them.”
– William Blake
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
Destiny is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
– William Jennings Bryan
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
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 biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.”
– Thomas Edison
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
– William Butler Yeats
The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. The greatest failure is to not try.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”
– William Shakespeare
Do you believe it is important to give back some portion of your wealth to support charitable causes?”
– Steven Schussler
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.”
– Steve Jobs, Apple, Inc.
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
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
– Corita Kent
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
Inspiration and genius — one and the same.”
– Victor Hugo
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.”
– President Calvin Coolidge
You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.”
– Goldie Hawn
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
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
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"
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
– Seneca
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
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.”
– Thomas Dunn
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.”
– Lord Chesterfield
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing.”
– Maya Angelou
