The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try going to sleep with a mosquito in your room.”
– A wisdomism
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
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
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.”
– Anna Pavlova
That which grows fast withers as rapidly; that which grows slowly endures.”
– J.G. Holland, novelist
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 gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
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
Letting go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large—like a beach ball on water.”
– Martha Beck
I have spent a good part of my life convincing people that a blank sheet of paper is the greatest opportunity in the world, and not frightening at all.”
– Marty Skler, executive vp, Walt Disney Imagineering
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
– Buddha
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.”
– Albert Schweitzer
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
A lot of people have ideas, but few decide to do something about them now. Not next week. But today.”
– Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”
– Lao Tzu
My task is really not to change myself but to become familiar with who I am.”
– Maureen Cook
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl Rogers
No longer talk at all about the kind of man a good man ought to be, but be such.”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
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
A truly forgiving person is someone who experiences all the anger merited by injustice and still acts with fairness and compassion.”
– Martha Beck
Entrepreneurs need to search purposefully for the sources of innovation that indicate opportunities for success.”
– Peter F. Drucker
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.”
– Joseph Addison
Are you willing to help other people succeed even when it’s not a requirement of your job to be of assistance?”
– Steven Schussler
Ripeness is all.”
– William Shakespeare
If you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.”
– Oprah Winfrey
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 young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
Whosoever knows how to fight well is not angry. Whosoever knows how to conquer enemies does not fight them.”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.”
– Leo Jozef Suenens
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
Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.”
– Barack Obama
I don’t do very well without fear. There needs to be a part of me saying, ‘That’s going to fail,’ so I can prove myself wrong.”
– Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe
You must have chaos within you, to create a dancing star.”
– Frederic Nietzsche
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
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"
The best hobbies are the ones that take us furthest from our primary occupation.”
– Dr. Evelyn Vogel, Dexter
Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.”
– Francesca Reigle
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
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
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
