No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another.”
– Charles Dickens
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
That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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
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
With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.”
– Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
– J. Robert Oppenheimer
The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.”
– Charles Brower, Advertising Hall of Fame
Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity.”
– Ray Bradbury
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be…”
– John Lennon
They who give have all things. They who withhold have nothing.”
– Hindu Proverb
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction; nor man perfected without trials.”
– Chinese proverb
Spend the afternoon. You can’t take it with you.”
– Annie Dillard
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo da Vinci
If you would create something,
you must be something.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.”
– Carlos Castaneda
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
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.”
– Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
I can’t go back to yesterday—because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll
The awakening to the mystery of life is a revolutionary event; in it an old world is destroyed so that a new and better one may take its place.”
– J.J. Van Der Leeuw, The Conquest of Illusion
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.”
– Indira Ghandi
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.”
– Anthony Trollope
If it really was a no-brainer to make it on your own in business there’d be millions of no-brained, harebrained individuals quitting their day jobs.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
The best reason to start an organization is to create a product or service to make the world a better place.”
– Guy Kawasaki
A man without a smiling face
should not open a shop.”
– Chinese Proverb
Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.”
– Gandi
The fixity of a habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.”
– Marcel Proust
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
– Charles Darwin
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.”
– The Dalai Lama
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love.”
– Jalaluddin Rumi
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.”
– Woodrow Wilson
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
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
By your stumbling the world is perfected.”
– Sri Aurobindo
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 follow-your-gut mentality of the entrepreneur has the potential to take you anywhere you want to go or run you right out of business.”
– Bill Rancic, "The Apprentice"
Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings.”
– Arthur Rubinstein
A diamond is a lump of coal that stuck with it.”
– Norwegian proverb
Do one thing every day that scares you.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!”
– Andrew Carnegie
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
Do not be afraid of mistakes, providing you do not make the same one twice.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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
Running that first shop taught me business is not financial science; it’s about trading.”
– Anita Roddick, founder, The Body Shop
Success is about finding a livelihood that brings joy, self-sufficiency, and a sense of contributing.”
– Anita Roddick
