If you do not tell the truth about yourself
, you cannot tell it about other people.”
– Virginia Woolf
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Things don’t change. You change your way of looking, that’s all.”
– Carlos Castaneda
My job is my hobby. I come to work to play.”
– Uli Becker, president, Reebok International
To find what you seek in the road of life, leave no stone unturned.”
– Edward Bulwer Lytton
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
What is the point of having free will if one cannot occasionally spit in the eye of destiny?”
– Jim Butcher, White Night
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anais Nin
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.”
– Mae West
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
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
A people who mean to be their Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
– James Madison
The biggest flaw in our existing theory of capitalism lies in its misrepresentation of human nature.”
– Muhammad Yunus
As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.”
– Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
We never know how high we are
till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.”
– Emily Dickinson
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.”
– Thomas Edison
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?’”
– Brian Tracy
You’ve got to be willing to crash and burn. If you’re afraid of failing, you won’t get very far.”
– Steve Jobs
The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Chuck E. Cheese's
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”
– Jack Kerouac
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.”
– Marcel Proust
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
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
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
– Erica Jong
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
We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.”
– General Omar Bradley
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
Never cut what you can untie.”
– Joseph Joubert
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
The quality of your life is directly related to the amount of uncertainty you can comfortably live with.”
– Tony Robbins
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
– Winston Churchill
I may not be able to change what takes place, but I can always choose to change my thinking.”
– Michelle Sedas
Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.”
– Debbi Fields, Mrs. Fields Cookies
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.”
– Steve Jobs
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
